
DEC-200™ H.264 and MPEG-2 Decoder
User Guide V2.7
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3.4.10
Menu: Network / SNMP (Simple Network Management
Protocol)
The Simple Network Management Protocol enables you to monitor and/or configure network attached
devices like the DEC-200™, made possible by the installed SNMP agents.
Every DEC-200™ since Firmware Version 1.37 is delivered with an SNMP agent. All you need are the
MIB (Management Information Base) files. With these MIB files you can use all advantages of SNMP
associated with the DEC-200™.
You can find the appropriate MIB files, ‘TERACUE-DEC200-MIB.txt’ and ‘TERACUE-SNMP-MIB.txt’
on the Teracue website IPTV Support Area. Or contact
.
With these MIBs and a SNMP manager, you have the possibility, to monitor the DEC-200™ status (by
SNMP traps) or remotely configure every function of the DEC-200™ similar to the normal access via
your web browser. There are various SNMP management-tools available to issue SNMP based
commands to the appliance (Software not supplied by Teracue).
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Set your SNMP manager to SNMPv2.
Teracue uses the MIB Browser by iReasoning to monitor/set up the DEC-200™. iReasoning offers a
free version of the MIB Browser under
www.ireasoning.com
, which is useful to read the actual status
or setting up the DEC-200™. See further information about the MIB Browser of iReasoning in chapter
3.4.10.1 on page 33.
SNMP uses the following standard ports: Port 161 and port 162. Port 161 is used by the SNMP
manager and the agent to send the requests and their responses. Port 162 is used by the SNMP
agent to send TRAPs to the SNMP manager. Make sure that these ports are not blocked in your
network.
The following operations are possible with SNMP:
GET:
Read out the management information.
GETNEXT:
Read out the management information iteratively, this is useful when you want to read
the information down the MIB tree step by step.
GETBULK:
Read out the management information of the complete list/tree.
SET:
Change/set the management information.
TRAP:
Start the Trap receiver in your SNMP manager to get alerts of the managed system.
E.g. the encoder was started / stopped.
To use the DEC-200™ SNMP features, you have to set up the encoder, to establish access with your
SNMP manager. See Figure 16.