User`s manual

RNAS-1200 Series Modify Network Settings
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SNMP
To configure SNMP, navigate to the NETWORK tab, then to the SNMP tab, from which you may further select
either Basic SNMP configuration, or Trap (to configure the settings for SNMP alarms and traps).
Basic SNMP Configuration
This allows users to configure basic SNMP settings.
Network Manager IP: Provide the IP address for the network manager. This will be the IP address of the
computer on which your network manager software (NMS) resides.
Send/Receive Port: Set the communication port over which SNMP data will be sent and received.
Read Community: This is the input box where you may change the Read Community String. The read
community string is essentially a password that works as a security feature to make it harder for anonymous,
untrusted systems to read data from the local device.
The default string is Public; this is the setting which all SNMP devices default to, and it will allow any computer
to read data from the local device. To provide the most basic level of security, Moxa strongly advises changing
the read community string. Users should build a virtual network of privately connected devices by configuring
the NMS and the group of networked SNMP agents with a strong read string. On the RNAS-1200, this is done
by inputting your chosen string into the Read Community input box and clicking Apply.
Read/Write Community: This is the input box where you may change the string that identifies the
Read/Write Community. The read/write community string is essentially a password that works as a security
feature to make it harder for anonymous, untrusted systems to read or write data from/to the local device. By
configuring a private, undisclosed read/write community string among an NMS and a group of networked SNMP
agents, a network of trusted peers that may read and write information to one another is created.