User`s guide

10-22 Preliminary November 23, 1998 MultiVoice Gateway for the MAX— User’s Guide
MultiVoice Gateway System Administration
SNMP administration support
SNMP administration support
The MultiVoice Gateway supports SNMP on a TCP/IP network. An SNMP management
station that uses the Ascend Enterprise MIB can query the MultiVoice Gateway, set some
parameters, sound alarms when certain conditions appear in the MultiVoice Gateway, and so
forth. An SNMP manager must be running on a host on the local IP network, and the
MultiVoice Gateway must be able to find that host through either a static route or RIP.
SNMP has its own password security, which you should set up to prevent reconfiguration of
the MultiVoice Gateway from an SNMP station.
Configuring SNMP access security
There are two levels of SNMP security: community strings, which must be known by a
community of SNMP managers to access the box, and address security, which denies SNMP
access unless it is initiated from a specified IP address. The following example shows the
relevant parameters:
Ethernet
Mod Config
SNMP options...
Read Comm=Ascend
R/W Comm Enable=No
R/W Comm=Secret
Security=Yes
RD Mgr1=10.0.0.1
RD Mgr2=10.0.0.2
RD Mgr3=10.0.0.3
RD Mgr4=10.0.0.4
RD Mgr5=10.0.0.5
WR Mgr1=10.0.0.11
WR Mgr2=10.0.0.12
WR Mgr3=10.0.0.13
WR Mgr4=10.0.0.14
WR Mgr5=10.0.0.15
(For complete information about each parameter, see the MAX Reference Guide.)
Enabling SNMP set commands
R/W Comm Enable disables SNMP Set commands by default. Before you can use an SNMP
Set command, you must set R/W Comm Enable to Yes.
Note: Even if you enable R/W Comm, you must still know the read-write community string
to use a Set command.
User Name Station name associated with the session. Initially, this value is Answer.
It is usually replaced with the name of the remote host. For
terminal-server sessions it is the login name. Before login completion,
this field will show the string modem x:y where x and y are the slot
and port of the modem servicing the session.
Field Description