General Settings Administration
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SNMP settings
SNMP stands for “Simple Network Management Protocol”.
SNMP is an Internet standard protocol that you use for exchanging
management information between the equipment in a CATV network.
You can use SNMP to monitor sub-headends, fibre notes and
amplifiers or to check the status of the equipment.
1. Press the
Admin
button at the top right-hand corner of the
System window.
2. Expand the
SNMP settings
area.
3. Specify the IP address of the computer that monitors the
network, i.e. the SNMP manager.
4. Specify new SNMP port numbers if you want to change the
default values in the two SNMP port fields.
5. Enter a password to access the SNMP manager in the
Community string
field.
6. Press the
OK
button.
For an overview of SNMP traps, see
“SNMP Traps”.