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Chapter 3 Device Manager basics
Table 2 Properties dialog box items (continued)
Area
Item
SNMP
Retry Count
Timeout
Trace
Register for Traps Specifies whether or not Device Manager should automatically register to
Listen for Traps
Max Traps in Log
Trap Port
Listen for Syslogs This feature is inactive and not available.
Confirm row
deletion
Default Read
Community
Default Write
Community
Opening a device
"Opening" a device displays the device view, a picture of the device. To open the
device view, you must enter community strings that determine the access level
granted to the device.
Device Manager software.
Table 3 SNMP community string default values
Access level
Read-only
Read/write
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Description
Number of times Device Manager retransmits polling information.
Length of each retry of each polling waiting period. When accessing the
device through a slow link, you may want to increase the timeout interval
and then change the Retransmission Strategy to superlinear.
Enables (checked) or disables (not checked) SNMP tracing. When Trace
is selected, SNMP protocol data units (PDUs) are displayed in the
Device > Log dialog box.
receive traps when Device Manager is launched against a switch.
Specifies whether or not Device Manager should automatically listen for
traps when Device Manager is launched against a switch.
Specifies the maximum number of traps that can exist in the trap log
(default is 500).
Specifies the UDP port that Device Manager will listen on to receive
SNMP traps.
When this check box is selected, a confirmation dialog box is displayed
when you try to delete a row from a Device Manager table.
Specifies the default read community, either public or private.
Specifies the default write community, either public or private.
Table 3
shows the default access community strings for the
Description
public
private
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