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The snmp setup screen, The snmp setup screen -14 – Netopia 4752 User Manual

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14-14 Administration Guide

The SNMP Setup screen

From the Main Menu, select SNMP in the System Configuration screen and press Return. The SNMP Setup
screen appears.

Follow these steps to configure the first three items in the screen:

1.

Select System Name and enter a descriptive name for the Netopia 4752’s SNMP agent.

2.

Select System Location and enter the router’s physical location (room, floor, building, etc.).

3.

Select System Contact and enter the name of the person responsible for maintaining the router.

System Name, System Location, and System Contact set the values returned by the Netopia 4752 SNMP agent
for the SysName, SysLocation, and SysContact objects, respectively, in the MIB II system group. Although
optional, the information you enter in these items can help a system administrator manage the network more
efficiently.

Community strings

The Read-Only Community String and the Read/Write Community String are like passwords that must be used
by an SNMP manager quer ying or configuring the Netopia 4752. An SNMP manager using the Read-Only
Community String can examine statistics and configuration information from the router, but cannot modify the
router’s configuration. An SNMP manager using the Read/Write Community String can both examine and
modify configuration parameters.

System

Main

Menu

Configuration

SNMP

SNMP Setup

System Name:
System Location:
System Contact:

Read-Only Community String: public
Read/Write Community String: private

Authentication Traps Enable: Off

IP Trap Receivers...

Configure optional SNMP parameters from here.