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4.2.7 SNMP
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is a communication protocol for managing devices on a network. It is commonly
used for network administrators to communicate with multiple devices (hub, switch, router ) for configuring and monitoring while
convenient for troubleshooting but no miscellaneous platform consideration.
The built-in SNMP is an agent, which watches the status of it self. The Network Management Station (A computer attached to
network with SNMP management program well installed) can be used to access it.
Community
A valid entry of Community String and IP Address is for authentication to login to the SNMP agent for configuration. Moreover,
the community capacity can up to 3 sets and only by the way of specified IP address here will be allowed to access the agent.
One entry consist of IP address “0.0.0.0” will allow the ones who know the community string to access the agent (with
Read-Only access right) without limitation.
4.2.7.1 Community Configuration
By default, two SNMP Communities exist:
。 private, with 'Read/Write' privileges and status set to enable
。 public, with 'Read Only' privileges and status set to enable
These are well-known communities; you can use this menu to change the defaults or to add other communities. Only the
communities that you define using this menu will have access to the switch using the SNMPv1 and SNMPv2c protocols. Only
those communities with read-write level access will have access to this menu via SNMP.
You should use this menu when you are using the SNMPv1 and SNMPv2c protocol: if you want to use SNMP v3 you should use
the User Accounts menu.
Figure 4-2-33 SNMP Community