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72 CHAPTER 5: ROUTER CONFIGURATION
3 In the Community column, enter the name of the SNMP communication
channel. Your SNMP management agent needs to be configured with this
name so that it can communicate with your Router.
4 In the Access column, select either:
■ Read to allow the management agent to collect data (for example,
bandwidth usage) from your Router. Or,
■ Write to allow the management agent to change the configuration of
your Router.
5 Check the Valid check box to enable the community.
6 If you do not want to configure your Router to send status messages to
the SNMP management agent if a problem occurs, click Apply to save the
settings.
If you want to configure your Router to send status messages, or Traps,
configure SNMP Traps in the lower section of the screen as follows:
7 In the IP Address field, enter the IP address of the PC to which you want
your Router to send status messages.
8 In the Community field, enter the community that you want to use to
access status messages.
9 Select the version of trap messaging that your management agent
supports from the Version drop-down list. The Router supports V1 and
V2c trap messaging.
10 Click Apply to save the settings.
System Tools These screens enable you to manage different parameters of the Router
and perform administrative functions. The Systems Tools menu has the
following sub-menus:
■ Restart Router — enables you to restart the Router and retain the
current system configuration.
■ Reset to Factory Defaults — resets the Router to factory default
settings, and loses the current configuration.
■ Backup/Restore Settings — enables you to save a configuration file,
and restore any saved configuration file.
■ Upgrade — enables you to upgrade the Router’s firmware.
■ Admin Password — enables you to reset the system password.
■ Time Zone — enables you to change time zone settings.