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Unified Access Point Administrator's Guide Section 5 - Configuring Access Point Services Figure 31 - SNMP Configuration Field Description SNMP Enabled/ Disabled You can specify the SNMP administrative mode on your network. By default SNMP is enabled. To enable SNMP, click Enabled. To disable SNMP, click Disabled. After changing the mode, you must click Apply to save your configuration changes. Note: If SNMP is disabled, all remaining fields on the SNMP page are disabled. This is a global SNMP parameter which applies to SNMPv1, SNMPv2c, and SNMPv3. Read-only Enter a read-only community name. The valid range is 1-256 characters. community name The community name, as defined in SNMPv2c, acts as a simple authentication mechanism (for permitted SNMP to restrict the machines on the network that can request data to the SNMP agent. The name get operations) functions as a password, and the request is assumed to be authentic if the sender knows the password. The community name can be in any alphanumeric format. Port number the SNMP agent will listen to By default an SNMP agent only listens to requests from port 161. However, you can configure this so the agent listens to requests on another port. Enter the port number on which you want the SNMP agents to listen to requests. The valid range is 1025-65535. Note: This is a global SNMP parameter that applies to SNMPv1, SNMPv2c, and SNMPv3. Allow SNMP set requests You can choose whether or not to allow SNMP set requests on the AP. Enabling SNMP set requests means that machines on the network can execute configuration changes via the SNMP agent on the AP to the D-Link System MIB. To enable SNMP set requests, click Enabled. To disable SNMP set requests, click Disabled. Read-write If you have enabled SNMP set requests you can set a read-write community name. The community name valid range is 1-256 characters. (for permitted SNMP Setting a community name is similar to setting a password. Only requests from the set operations) machines that identify themselves with this community name will be accepted. The community name can be in any alphanumeric format. Restrict the source You can restrict the source of permitted SNMP requests. of SNMP requests to To restrict the source of permitted SNMP requests, click Enabled. only the designated To permit any source submitting an SNMP request, click Disabled. hosts or subnets 2021 Unified Access Point Administrator's Guide Page 49