Draytek P2260 User Manual

 

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Basically, it is passive except issuing the trap information. The switch supports a switch to 
turn on or off the SNMP agent. If you set the field SNMP “Enable”, SNMP agent will be 
started up. All supported MIB OIDs, including RMON MIB, can be accessed via SNMP 
manager. If the field SNMP is set “Disable”, SNMP agent will be de-activated, the related 
Community Name, Trap Host IP Address, Trap and all MIB counters will be ignored. 

SNMP Configuration 

This function is used to configure SNMP settings, community name, trap host and public 
traps as well as the throttle of SNMP. A SNMP manager must pass the authentication by 
identifying both community names, then it can access the MIB information of the target 
device. So, both parties must have the same community name. Once completing the setting, 
click <Apply> button, the setting takes effect.   

 

SNMP:   

The term SNMP here is used for the activation or 
de-activation of SNMP. Default is Enable. 

Get/Set/Trap Community:   

Community name is used as password for authenticating if 
the requesting network management unit belongs to the 
same community group. If they both don’t have the same 
community name, they don’t belong to the same group. 
Hence, the requesting network management unit can not 
access the device with different community name via SNMP 
protocol; If they both have the same community name, they 
can talk each other.   
 
Community name is user-definable with a maximum length 
of 15 characters and is case sensitive. There is not allowed to 
put any blank in the community name string. Any printable 
character is allowable.   
 
The community name for each function works independently. 
Each function has its own community name. Say, the