Chapter 3
Configuration
5 – SNMP Community
An SNMP community name is a local identifier (up to 24 alphanumeric characters)
used by the SNMP protocol to control access to the management agent. Each agent
is assigned a community name which the management station must know in order
to communicate with the agent.
The P113F has a default community name of
public
. All management stations
can communicate with agents in the
public
community. If you change this
community name or add a new community name to the agent you must also
reconfigure the management station(s) that will be communicating with the agent.
If you change the public community, the management station will not be able
to communicate with the agent until the management station has been
configured with the new community name.
The P113F accommodates three types of SNMP community names:
•
Read-Only
: The agent accepts and processes only SNMP
Get
commands from
management stations with a read-only community name. The communities
table can include up to five read-only community names.
•
Read-Write
: The agent accepts and processes SNMP
Get
and
Set
commands
received from management stations with a read-write community name. The
communities table can include up to five read-write community names.
•
Trap
: The agent sends
Traps
to a management station within this community.
Only one trap community name may be defined for the agent.
To update the SNMP Community table:
1. Select
SNMP Community
from the Setup Main Menu. This opens the menu
shown below:
SNMP Community Menu
Version: _____ Slot #: _____
<CR>
Refresh the screen
0
return to the previous menu
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1 Trap
Community[]
2 Read-Only
Community[]
3 Read-Write
Community[]
>>>Enter your choice:
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