Verilink PRISM 4101 (34-00230) Product Manual - Manual (Page 56)

44 C HAPTER 4: T ERMINAL I NTERFACE
an alarm occurs, the unit sends a Trap message to up to six destinations on the
user’s network. The Trap message is formatted per RFC 1157. The generic Trap
type is enterpriseSpecific (generic -trap = 6).
Up to six Trap IP addresses can be assigned to report via SNMP. The unit reports
each alarm by transmitting an SNMP Trap to each Trap IP address. Network
problems often cause more than one alarm type. In these cases, multiple Trap
messages are generated, each with a different specific Trap type. The specific-trap
field of each Trap message is set to one of the values shown in Appendix A.
Read Community. This display accepts a character string (up to 58 characters)
identifying the group authorized to perform read operations. The default setting is
public.
Write Community. This display accepts a character string (up to 58 characters)
identifying the group authorized to perform write operations. The default setting is
‘ ’, which is a null string.
System Contact. This display accepts a character string (up to 58 characters)
identifying the person responsible for a network device. The default setting is no
system contact.
System Name. This display accepts a character string (up to 58 characters)
identifying the functionality of the network device. The default setting is no system
name.
System Location. This display accepts a character string (up to 58 characters)
identifying the physical location of network device. The default setting is no
system location.