Alloy Computer Products GSM-8T16SFP - Manual (Page 56)

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Get/Set/Trap Community:
The Community name is used as a password for authentication to the Network
Management software that is being used. If they both don’t have the same community
name, they don’t belong to the same group. Hence, the requesting network
management unit cannot access devices with different community names via the
SNMP protocol. If they both have the same community name, they can talk to each
other.
The community name is user-definable with a maximum length of 15 characters and is
case sensitive. When creating the community name please ensure that no spaces are
used.
The community name for each function works independently. Each function has its
own community name. Therefore, the community name for GET only works for the
GET command and can’t be applied to other functions such as SET and Trap.
Default SNMP function: Enable
Default community name for GET: public
Default community name for SET: private
Default community name for Trap: public
Default Set function: Enable
Default trap host IP address: 0.0.0.0
Default port number: 162
Trap:
In the GSM Series switches, there are six trap hosts supported. Each of them has its
own community name and IP address; which are user-definable. To configure a Trap
host you will need a network management System to receive the Trap messages from
the switch. Six Trap hosts can be configured to allow the trap messages to be received
by multiple recipients.
For each public trap, the switch supports the following trap events, Cold Start, Warm
Start, Link Down, Link Up and Authentication Failure. They can be enabled or disabled
individually. When enabled, the corresponding trap will actively send a trap message
to the trap host when a trap happens. If all public traps are disabled, no public trap
messages will be sent.
Default for all public traps: Enable.