User guide

Configuring Other Appliance Settings
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Proventia Network IPS G and GX Appliance User Guide
Password
management
From the Password Management Menu, you can perform the following tasks:
SNMP
configuration
When you enable SNMP from the Configuration Menu, you are enabling the appliance to
send information about system health-related events such as low disk space, low swap
space, very high CPU usage, or physical intrusions. These settings do not affect SNMP
responses assigned to events that occur on the network. For information about SNMP
responses to events, see “Configuring SNMP Responses” on page 73.
From the SNMP Configuration Menu, you can perform the following tasks:
Task Description
Change admin, root, or
Proventia Manager
passwords
You can use Proventia Manager to also change passwords. See
“Configuring User Access” on page 139.
Disable the boot loader
password
The boot loader password protects the appliance from
unauthorized user access during the boot process. When you set
a root password, the boot loader password is automatically
enabled and set to the same password. You can disable the boot
loader password; the root password remains active.
Table 13: Password management tasks
Task Description
Enable SNMP Guides you through providing the information the appliance needs
to communicate with the SNMP manager. You provide the
following information:
• System location, contact, and name
• IP address for the main trap receiver
• Communication port number (port 162 by default)
• Community string (public or private)
• Trap version
Disable SNMP Stops the appliance from sending system related information to
the SNMP manager and removes all previous configurations.
Start or stop the SNMP
daemon
Allows you to restart or temporarily disable the SNMP service.
View SNMP system
information
View the current SNMP settings for the appliance.
Add or delete a trap receiver The trap receiver IP address is the server address where the
SNMP Manager is running. The SNMP Host must be accessible to
the appliance to send SNMP traps.
Allows you to add additional trap receivers to receive messages
from the appliance, or to delete a trap receiver you no longer want
to receive messages.
Enable read access for the
trap receiver
Allows the SNMP Manager to collect information about system-
related events.
Important: If you choose to allow SNMP read access, UDP port
161 is opened on the appliance firewall.
Table 14: SNMP configuration tasks