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Configuring and Managing Routers with Site Manager
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Router Security
As the system administrator responsible for configuring and managing your
router, you need to have full read-write access to the router; however, you will
want to prevent unauthorized users from accessing the router.
To secure the router, you must configure the router’s SNMP agent so that
specific routers belong to an SNMP community of the appropriate access
level, that is, read or read/write.
If you have not already set up router security, refer to Quick-Starting Routers
for instructions. For information about SNMP, refer to Configuring SNMP,
RMON, BootP, DHCP, and RARP Services.
How to Use This Guide
Understanding how this guide is organized should make it more useful to you. The
chapters are organized as follows:
• Getting Started with Site Manager
If you are a new user, begin with this chapter. It tells you how to start Site
Manager and familiarizes you with Site Manager’s graphical user interface
and its tools. If you are already familiar with Site Manager, skip this chapter
and go to the chapter that best describes the task you are trying to accomplish.
• Descriptions of each Site Manager tool and the tasks that each tool helps you
accomplish (Chapters 2 through 11)
Go to the chapter that best describes the task you need to accomplish.
If you are a new user, you will probably begin by configuring and booting the
router, and performing basic file management. If you are an experienced user,
you may be modifying your configuration, upgrading and loading new
software, or monitoring router performance.
• Appendixes about starting Site Manager using UNIX commands, parameter
descriptions, information about SNMP errors, the syslog facility, and
reallocating memory partitions on processor modules.
The Site Manager windows in this guide are examples from a UNIX workstation.
You may see slight differences if you are using Site Manager on a PC, but the
windows work the same way.