7: Services
SLB™ Branch Office Manager User Guide 65
NMS
When SNMP is enabled, an NMS (Network
Management System) acts as a central server,
requesting and receiving SNMP-type information from
any computer using SNMP. The NMS can request
information from the SLB branch office manager and
receive traps from the SLB device. Enter the IP
address of the NMS server. Required if you selected
Enable Traps.
Location
Physical location of the SLB branch office manager
(optional). Useful for managing the SLB device using
SNMP. Up to 20 characters.
Contact
Description of the person responsible for maintaining
the SLB branch office manager, for example, a name
(optional). Up to 20 characters.
Alarm Delay
Number of seconds delay between outgoing SNMP
traps.
Communities
Trap
The trap used for outgoing generic and enterprise
traps. Traps sent with the Event trigger mechanism still
use the trap community specified with the Event action.
The default is public.
Read-Only
A string that acts like a password for an SNMP
manager to access the read-only data the SLB SNMP
agent provides. The default is public.
Read-Write
A string that acts like a password for an SNMP
manager to access the read-only data the SLB SNMP
agent provides and to modify data where permitted.
The default is private.
Version 3
Security
Levels of security available with SNMP v. 3.
No Auth/No Encrypt: No authentication or encryption.
Auth/No Encrypt: Authentication but no encryption.
(default)
Auth/Encrypt: Authentication and encryption.
Auth with For Auth/No Encryp or Auth/Encrypt, the
authentication method:
MD5: Message-Digest algorithm 5 (default)
SHA: Secure Hash Algorithm
Encrypt with
Encryption standard to use:
DES: Data Encryption Standard (default)
AES: Advanced Encryption Standard