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SNMP Settings
Community Name
Setting Factory Default Necessity
1 to 39 characters
(E.g., Support, 886-89191230 #300)
public Optional
A community name is a plain-text password mechanism that is used to weakly authenticate queries to
agents of managed network devices.
Contact
Setting Factory Default Necessity
1 to 39 characters
(E.g., Support, 886-89191230 #300)
None Optional
The SNMP contact information usually includes an emergency contact name and telephone or pager
number.
Location
Setting Factory Default Necessity
1 to 39 characters
(E.g., Floor 1, office 2)
None Optional
Specify the location string for SNMP agents such as NPort. This string is usually set to the street
address where the NPort is physically located.
IP Address Report
When NPort 5000 series products are used in a dynamic IP environment, users must spend more time
with IP management tasks. For example, NPort works as a server (TCP or UDP), and the host, which
acts as a client, must know the IP address of the server. If the DHCP server assigns a new IP address
to the server, the host must take care of what happens when the IP changes.
NPort 5000 series products help out by periodically reporting their IP address to the IP location server,
in case the dynamic IP has changed. The parameters shown below are used to configure the Auto IP
report function. There are two ways to develop an “Auto IP report Server” to receive NPort’s Auto IP
report.
1. Use NPort Administrator’s IP Address Report function.
2. Refer the Appendix E for the “Auto IP report protocol” to develop your own software.
Auto report to IP
Setting Factory Default Necessity
E.g., 192.168.1.1 or URL
(IP addresses of the form x.x.x.0 and
x.x.x.255 are invalid.)
None Optional
Reports generated by the Auto report function will be automatically sent to this IP address.
Auto report to TCP port
Setting Factory Default Necessity
E.g., 4001 4002 Optional
Auto report period
Setting Factory Default Necessity
Time interval (in seconds) 10 Optional
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