General Snmp Settings - Cisco WAP121 Administration Manual

Simple Network Management Protocol

General SNMP Settings

General SNMP Settings
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Cisco Small Business WAP121 and WAP321 Wireless-N Access Point with PoE
You can use the General page to enable SNMP and configure basic protocol
settings.
To configure general SNMP settings:
Click SNMP > General in the navigation window.
Select Enabled for the SNMP setting. SNMP is disabled by default.
Configure the parameters:
• Read-only Community Name—A read-only community name for SNMPv2
access. The valid range is 1 to 256 characters.
The community name acts as a simple authentication mechanism to restrict
the machines on the network that can request data to the SNMP agent. The
name functions as a password, and the request is assumed to be authentic
if the sender knows the password.
The community name can accept alphanumeric and special characters.
• UDP Port—By default an SNMP agent only listens to requests from port 161.
However, you can configure this so that the agent listens to requests on
another port. The valid range is from 1025 to 65535.
• Read-write Community Name—Sets a read-write community name to be
used for SNMP Set requests. The valid range is from 1 to 256 characters.
Setting a community name is similar to setting a password. Only requests
from the machines that identify themselves with this community name will
be accepted.
The community name can be in any alphanumeric format.
• Management Station—Determines which stations can access the WAP
device through SNMP: Select one of these options:
- All—The set of stations that can access the WAP device through SNMP
is not restricted.
- User Defined—Restricts the source of permitted SNMP requests to
those specified in these lists:
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