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Chapter 5: Changing System Settings
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b. In the Name Server Search Order text box, enter the IP address of the DNS server
you want to add. Then click the
Add
button.
You can specify the address in dotted-decimal notation.
After you click the Add button, Configuration Expert adds the specified server to
the list.
c. If you want to configure the SSR for additional DNS servers, repeat step a and
step b until you add up to three DNS servers.
If you add a server and then later want to remove it, you may do so by selecting its
name in the list and then clicking the Delete button.
6. Click OK .
Configuring the SSR for SNMP
The Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) provides support for monitoring and
controlling network devices, collecting statistics, and managing configurations,
performance, and security. SNMP is mainly used by TCP/IP networks.
You configure the SSR for SNMP by performing the following tasks:
• Setting up targets for SNMP traps. A target is a management station to which the SSR
sends SNMP traps, which are messages that describe an event (such as restarting the
SSR or a link going down).
• Establishing community strings that SNMP management stations must supply to
access the SSR.
Separate discussions on these SNMP tasks follow.
Setting Up a Target for SNMP Traps
Set up a target for SNMP traps to specify to which server you want the SSR to send SNMP
traps. To set up an SNMP trap target on the SSR:
1. Make sure there is a network connection to the server to which you want the SSR to
send SNMP traps. You can do so by sending a ping packet to the desired server.
2. Start Configuration Expert if you have not already done so.
3. Open the configuration file you want to modify and then double-click that file’s
System Configuration object.
4. Double-click the SNMP Configuration object.
5. Configuration Expert displays the SNMP Trap Target and SNMP Community String
objects.