Allied Telesis SNMPc Enterprise Manager - Manual (Page 14)

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Installing A Remote Poller
Remote Polling Agents are sold separately
You can add a remote Polling Agent to another computer on your network.
This computer could be on the same LAN or in another city. Unlike the
Console computer, you can add a Polling Agent on the other side of a low-
speed line because it does not have high bandwidth requirements.
Adding one or more remote Polling Agents solves the following problems:
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A polling agent on the other side of a slow or expensive line can poll
devices independently, notifying you only when a change occurs. This
saves money and frees up the remote line for other uses.
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If you have many devices in your network, or if you want to poll many
devices for long-term statistics, your server computer may become
overburdened and response times will decrease. Using a remote
Polling Agent offloads the polling tasks from the server computer.
Perform the following steps to install an SNMPc 5.0 Enterprise Polling
Agent:
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Place the SNMPc 5.0 Enterprise CD-ROM in the CD-ROM drive.
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From the Windows NT Start menu, select Run and enter d:\setup.exe
(replace d with the drive letter for your CD-ROM drive). Press OK.
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Several following dialog screens will prompt you for your name, your
organization name, a software license number, and an installation
directory. The software license number is printed on the Remote Poller
license card.
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A dialog will prompt you for a Discovery Seed and Community Name.
Enter the IP address and community name for any SNMP device
(usually the default gateway) on your network.
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A dialog will prompt you for the IP address of the SNMPc 5.0
Enterprise Server workstation and the Remote Poller password. The
password is initially blank.