SW5501 – SW5502
Wireless Serial Server
User Manual
Configuration and
setup
By filling in the passphrase for the
“
Read Community
”
, SW550X device allows other network management software
to read its information
.
By filling in the passphrase for the
“
Write Community
”
, SW550X device allows other network
management software to read
/
modify its information
.
The default SW550X
’
s SNMP Community Strings
(
or
passphrases
)
for Read Community and Write Community
as shown in Figure 3
.
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are
“
public
”
and
“
private
”
,
respectively
.
Additionally, you can setup a SNMP Trap server in the network to receive and collect
all alert messages from
SW550X
.
To configure SW550X to dispatch alert messages
originated from any unexpected incidents, you can fill
in the IP Address of the SNMP Trap Server in the field shown above
.
Note that any changes in these settings will
take effect after the SW550X device is restarted
.
Under the SNMP Trap server, there is a list of Alert Type under Event alert settings
box
.
There are two possible
actions for each alert event
:
Email and SNMP Trap
.
You can enable
the associated action
(
s
)
of each alert event by
checking the box
under the column of Email and
/
or SNMP Trap
.
When the Email box is checked and the
corresponding event occurs, it will trigger an action for SW550X to send an e
-
mail alert to designated addresses
configured in the E
-
Mail Settings
(
described in the next section
).
When the SNMP Trap box is checked and the
corresponding event occurs, it will trigger an action for SW550X to send a trap alert to the designated SNMP Trap
server
.
There are seven events that will trigger the alarm from SW550X as listed in figure above
.
These alerts are useful
for security control or security monitoring of the SW550X device
:
Cold Start
:
This event occurs when there is a power interruption
.
Warm Start
:
This event occurs
when the device resets
.
Wireless Disassociated
:
This event occurs when wireless interface
(
IEEE 802
.
11
)
of SW550X disassociates
from an Access Point
.
Wireless Associated
:
This event occurs when wireless interface
(
IEEE 802
.
11
)
of SW550X associates with an
Access Point
.
Authentication Failure
:
This event occurs
when an incorrect username and
/
or password are entered which
could indicate an unauthorized access to the SW550X
.
IP Address Changed
:
This event occurs when the SW550X device
’
s IP address is changed
.
Password Changed
:
This event occurs when the administrator password is changed
.
After finish configuring the SNMP
/
Alert Settings, please click on Save & Apply button to keep the change that you
have made and to apply your setting
.
A pop
-
up window with message
“
Please wait for a while
…”
will be
displayed
.
When the saving and applying are finished, the pop
-
up window will disappear and the web browser will
remain on the SNMP
/
Alert Settings page
.
If you want to cancel the change and reset all changes back to their
original values, just click the Cancel button
.
4.7
Web configuration - E-mail Settings
When SW550X device raises an alert and
/
or a warning message, it can send an e
-
mail to an administrator
’
s mailbox
.
This E
-
mail Settings page allows you to set up the SW550X to be able to send an e
-
.
Figure below shows the
E
-
mail Settings page in which there are two configurable parts
:
E
-
mail Address Settings and E
-
mail Server
.
First
for the E
-
mail Address Settings
part, a Sender
’
s e
-
mail address is required to be filled in the
Sender
’
s text box
which will be used in the From field of the e
-
.
Note that the maximum length of sender email address is 48
