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Installing the snmp macagent – Asante Technologies 10/100 User Manual

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Overview

SNMP MacAgent forwards four types of information about the station:

Station Profile, including station hardware components,
system and memory

Station Slot Table, identifying the network interface
cards installed

Station Activity, transmission statistics for the network
interface card

Note: The Macintosh must be equipped with an Asanté
card and the Asanté EtherTalk driver to receive Station
Activity information.

Station Applications, a listing of resident applications for
software resource management

In addition, the SNMP MacAgent alerts the network management system
when the station is restarted.

Installing the SNMP MacAgent

To install and configure the Asanté SNMP MacAgent on the workstation, per-
form the following steps:

1

Insert the Installer Disk into the drive.

2

Double-click the Installer icon and click OK when the Installer
banner appears. The Easy Install dialog box appears.

3

Click Customize. The Customize Install dialog box appears.

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