Netopia 6.3 - Manual (Page 60)

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Section 4 Configure
Link SNMP
SNMP presents you with a security issue. The community facility of
SNMP behaves somewhat like a password. The community “public”
is a well-known community name. It could be used to examine the
configuration of your Gateway by your service provider or an unin-
vited reviewer. While Cayman's SNMP implementation does not
allow changes to the configuration, the information can be read
from the Gateway.
If you are strongly concerned about security, you may delete the
“public” community.
Description
The Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) lets a network
administrator monitor problems on a network by retrieving settings
on remote network devices. The network administrator typically runs
an SNMP management station program on a local host to obtain
information from an SNMP agent. In this case, the Cayman Gateway
is an SNMP agent.
You enter SNMP configuration information on this page.
Your network administrator furnishes the SNMP parameters.
Response