User guide

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BreezeNET DS.11b User’s Guide
Manual Version 1.0
Securing Base Station Setup
Security measures, such as access control, become ineffective when
unauthorized persons can view and modify the configuration of your Base
Stations.
To protect your network configuration from undesired modifications, you are
advised to implement the following measures:
! Read and read/write passwords
! SNMP IP address access list
! Trap host alert mechanisms (optional)
Read and Read/Write passwords
To restrict access to the Base Station configuration information, you can create
two authority levels for passwords:
! Read password
! Read/write password
Read password
A read password will only provide access to the Base Station to monitor
diagnostic information found under
Monitor button in the main AP Manager
window.
You can define a read password in the field
Read Password on the SNMP tab
(Select Base Station from list, click
Edit and select SNMP tab). The default value
is “public”.
Read/Write password
A read/write password will provide you with full access to display Base Station
diagnostic information found under the
Monitor button, as well as the
configuration settings found under the
Edit button.
Entering an incorrect password will result in a time-out error, or “SNMP error
no such name”.
To define a read/write password:
1. Start the AP Manager and select the target Base Station from the list or enter
a specific IP address.
2. Click the
Edit button to connect to the Base Station.
3. Select the
SNMP tab.