5.10 SNMP

The Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is an application layer protocol that facilities the exchange of management information between network devices. It is part of TCP/IP (Transmission Control protocol/Internet Protocol) suite and enables you to control and monitor the network in a simple way.

On the SNMP page, you can edit the basic Agent information and also configure up to 6 SNMP trap receiver’s IP Addresses. When a trap condition occurs, your router will send an SNMP trap message to any NMS (Network Management System) specified as trap receivers, for example, when power supply errors occur.

Notes :

NMS (Network Management System) is an SNMP management application together with the computer it runs on.

Currently the Company AP Router supports SNMPv1 (SNMP version 1) and SNMPv2 (SNMP version 2) which have a number of features in common except for some enhancements.

And moreover, you can specify different community names for authenticating access to the management information, which function as embedded passwords:

Read: Gives you READ access to all the management information, but does not allow WRITE access.

Write: Gives you both READ and WRITE access to all the

Note :

The community name definitions on your NMS must match at least one of the above two community name definitions.

management information.

What do you want to do?

Configure Agent Information, SNMP Trap Host IP Addresses and Community Names on Your Router

Delete an Existing SNMP Trap Receiver

Delete SNMP Community Names

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