Perle Systems SCS8C DC User Manual

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Management

Select between Trap and Inform.  Inform requires the host receiving the trap to 

acknowledge the receipt of the trap.

The name of the group that devices and management stations running SNMP 
belong to.  Community only applies to SNMP v1 and v2c

This is only used for Inform traps.  Select the number of seconds to wait for the 

acknowledgement of the trap.  
Default: 1 second

This is only used for Inform traps.  Select the number of times the trap will be 

sent if no acknowledgement is received.
Default: 3

This field identifies the system sending the traps to the host receiving the traps.  
Same user name is used for all traps sent by this system.

Select the security level for the V3 traps. This must match the configuration set 

up in the SNMP manager.
Data Options:

z

None—No security is used.

z

Auth—Trap authentication is used.

z

Auth/Priv—Trap authentication and privacy (encryption) settings are 

used.

Default: None

Specify the authentication algorithm that will be used for the read-only user.
Data Options: MD5, SHA
Default: MD5

Type in the password associated with traps sent from this host.

Re-enter the password associated with traps sent from this host.

Specify the privacy algorithm (encryption) which will be used with traps.
Data Options: DES, AES
Default: DES

Type in the password associated with the encryption method being used for 

traps.

Re-type the password associated with the encryption method being used for 
traps.

This is the current engine ID.  The Engine ID is a string which uniquely 

identifies this SNMP agent.

When this field is selected, the firmware will use the default Engine ID.  The 

default Engine ID is the MAC address of the Ethernet interface to ensure that 

the Engine ID is unique to this agent.