User`s guide
Table Of Contents
- Figure 2.1: VMR Series - Front Panel (Model VMR-16HD20-1 Shown)
- Figure 2.2: VMR Series - Back Panel (Model VMR-16HD20-1 Shown)
- Figure 2.3: NPS Series - Front Panel (Model NPS-16HD20-1 Shown)
- Figure 2.4: NPS Series - Back Panel (Model NPS-16HD20-1 Shown)
- Figure 5.1: Boot Priority Example 1
- Figure 5.2: Boot Priority Example 2
- Figure 9.1: The Help Menu (Administrator Mode; Text Interface - VMR Shown)
- Figure 14.1: Web Access Parameters (Text Interface Only)
- Figure B.1: RS232 SetUp Port Interface
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Unit Description
- 3. Getting Started
- 4. Hardware Installation
- 5. Basic Configuration
- 5.1. Communicating with the VMR or NPS Unit
- 5.2. Configuration Menus
- 5.3. Defining System Parameters
- 5.4. User Accounts
- 5.5. Managing User Accounts
- 5.6. The Plug Group Directory
- 5.7. Defining Plug Parameters
- 5.8. Serial Port Configuration
- 5.9. Network Configuration
- 5.10. Save User Selected Parameters
- 6. Reboot Options
- 7. Alarm Configuration
- 8. The Status Screens
- 9. Operation
- 10. SSH Encryption
- 11. Syslog Messages
- 12. SNMP Traps
- 13. Operation via SNMP
- 14. Setting Up SSL Encryption
- 15. Saving and Restoring Configuration Parameters
- 16. Upgrading VMR/NPS Firmware
- 17. Command Reference Guide
- Appendix A. Specifications
- Appendix B. Interface Descriptions
- Appendix C. Customer Service
- Index
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Basic Configuration
5.9.7. SNMP Trap Parameters
These menus are used to select parameters that will be employed when SNMP traps are
sent. For more information on SNMP Traps, please refer to Section 12. Both the Text
Interface and Web Browser Interface allow the following parameters to be defined:
• SNMPManager1: The IP Address for the first SNMP Manager. For more
information, please refer to Section 12. (Default = Undefined.)
Note: In order to enable the SNMP Trap feature, you must define at least one
SNMP Manager.
• SNMPManager2: (Default = Undefined.)
• TrapCommunity: (Default = Public.)
• PingTest: (Text Interface Only) Allows you to ping the IP addresses or domain
names defined via the SNMP Manager 1 and SNMP Manager 2 prompts in order to
check that a valid IP address or domain name has been entered.
Note: In order for the Ping Test feature to function, your network and/or firewall
must be configured to allow ping commands.
5.9.8. LDAP Parameters
The VMR/NPS supports LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol,) which allows
authentication via the "Active Directory" network Directory Service. When LDAP is
enabled and properly configured, command access rights can be granted to new users
without the need to define individual new accounts at each VMR/NPS unit, and existing
users can also be removed without the need to delete the account from each VMR/NPS
unit.
This type of authentication also allows administrators to assign users to LDAP groups,
and then specify which plugs the members of each group will be allowed to control at
each VMR/NPS unit.
In order to apply the LDAP feature, you must first define User Names and associated
Passwords and group membership via your LDAP server, and then access the VMR/
NPS command mode to enable and configure the LDAP settings and define port access
rights and command access rights for each group that you have specified at the LDAP
server.
Notes:
• Plug access rights are not defined at the LDAP server. They are defined via
the LDAP Group configuration menu on each VMR/NPS unit and are specific
to that VMR/NPS unit alone.
• When LDAP is enabled and properly configured, LDAP authentication will
supersede any passwords and access rights that have been defined via the
VMR/NPS user directory.
• If no LDAP groups are defined on a given VMR/NPS unit, then access rights
will be determined as specified by the "default" LDAP group.
• The "default" LDAP group cannot be deleted.