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7: Services
SLC™ Console Manager User Guide 66
Communities
Version 3
Enable Traps Traps are notifications of certain critical events. Disabled by default. This feature is
applicable when SNMP is enabled. Examples of traps that the SLC console
manager sends include:
 Ethernet Port Link Up
 Ethernet Port Link Down
 Authentication Failure
 SLC Booted
 SLC Shutdown
 Device Port Logging
 Power Supply Status
 Sysadmin user password changed
The SLC device sends the traps to the host identified in the NMS field.
NMS—When SNMP is enabled, an NMS (Network Management System) acts as
a central server, requesting and receiving SNMP-type information from any
computer using SNMP. The NMS can request information from the SLC device
and receive traps from the SLC console manager. Enter the IP address of the
NMS server. Required if you selected Enable Traps.
Location—Physical location of the SLC device (optional). Useful for managing the
SLC console manager using SNMP. Up to 20 characters.
Contact—Description of the person responsible for maintaining the SLC device,
for example, a name (optional). Up to 20 characters.
Traps Enabled for
Sending
(Table listing types
of traps)
Enables the sending of SNMP trap messages. Click the types of trap messages
that you want to receive.
Read-Only A string that acts like a password for an SNMP manager to access the read-only
data the SLC SNMP agent provides. The default is public.
Read-Write A string that acts like a password for an SNMP manager to access the read-only
data the SLC SNMP agent provides and to modify data where permitted. The
default is private.
Trap The trap used for outgoing generic and enterprise traps. Traps sent with the Event
trigger mechanism still use the trap community specified with the Event action.
The default is public.
Alarm Delay Number of seconds delay between outgoing SNMP traps.
Security Levels of security available with SNMP v. 3 are:
 No Auth/No Encrypt: No authentication or encryption.
 Auth/No Encrypt: Authentication but no encryption. (default)
 Auth/Encrypt: Authentication and encryption.
Auth with For Auth/No Encryp or Auth/Encrypt, the authentication method:
 MD5: Message-Digest algorithm 5 (default)
 SHA: Secure Hash Algorithm