Netopia R2121, User Reference Manual

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13-14 User’s Reference Guide
The SNMP Setup screen
To go to the SNMP Setup screen from the Main Menu, select SNMP in the System Configuration screen and
press Return.
Follow these steps to configure the first three items in the screen:
1. Select System Name and enter a descriptive name for the Netopia R2121’s SNMP agent.
2. Select System Location and enter the router’s physical location (room, floor, building, etc.).
3. Select System Contact and enter the name of the person responsible for maintaining the router.
System Name , System Location , and System Contact set the values returned by the Netopia R2121 SNMP
agent for the SysName, SysLocation, and SysContact objects, respectively, in the MIB-II system group. Although
optional, the information you enter in these items can help a system administrator manage the network more
efficiently.
Community strings
The Read-Only Community String and the Read/Write Community String are like passwords that must be used
by an SNMP manager quer ying or configuring the Netopia R2121. An SNMP manager using the Read-Only
Community String can examine statistics and configuration information from the router, but cannot modify the
router’s configuration. An SNMP manager using the Read/Write Community String can both examine and
modify configuration parameters.
System
Main
Menu
Configuration
SNMP
SNMP Setup
System Name:
System Location:
System Contact:
Read-Only Community String: public
Read/Write Community String: private
Authentication Traps Enable: Off
IP Trap Receivers...
Configure optional SNMP parameters from here.