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5.6.2 SNMP
Settings for the Simple Network Management Protocol. This is a set of protocols for managing complex
networks and works by sending messages to different parts of a network.
Figure 5-183: SERVICES SNMP – enable and configure the network management.
By default, the SNMP service of Bytton LTE is disabled, and there are two empty entries, for public and
respectively private.
You may also enable or disable the SNMP feature on the remote (WAN) side of the Bytton router.
By default, this one is disabled too.
What about SNMP?
This
Simple Network Management Protocol
(SNMP)
is used as the transport protocol for network
management. This “Network management” business generally consists of network management stations
communicating with network elements such as hosts, routers, servers, or printers.
The agent is the software on the Bytton LTE router that runs the network management software.
Therefore when the word agent is used, it is referring to the network element. This agent store information
in a management information base (MIB).
The network manager can set the threshold of the monitored event that will trigger the sending of
the trap message. Among other applications, SNMP enables monitoring the performance of the network,
when used in conjunction with different performance monitoring programs.
SNMP Communities
are groups that devices and management stations running SNMP belong to. It helps
define where information is sent. The community name is used to identify the group. A SNMP device or
agent may belong to more than one SNMP community.
It will not respond to requests from management stations that do not belong to one of its communities.