Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) Settings

Use the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) Settings page to manage and monitor network devices. You can configure Digi Connnect WAN Family devices to use SNMP features, or you can disable SNMP for security reasons. For additional information, see Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP).

Enable Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP): This check box enables or disables use of SNMP.
- The Public community and Private community fields specify passwords required to get or set SNMP-managed objects. Changing public and private community names from their defaults is recommended to prevent unauthorized access to the device.
- Public community: The password required to get SNMP-managed objects. The default is public.
- Private community: The password required to set SNMP-managed objects. The default is private.
- Allow SNMP clients to set device settings through SNMP: This check box enables or disables the capability for users to issue SNMP set commands uses use of SNMP read-only for the Digi device.
Enable Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) traps: Enables or disables the generation of SNMP traps.
- Trap Destinations: Provide the IP address or fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of the system where the SNMP agent sends traps. The primary destination is required. The secondary destination is optional.
- Primary/Secondary: The IP address of the system to which the SNMP agent sends traps. To enable any of the traps, you must specify a non-zero value. The primary destination is required. The secondary destination is optional. If your Digi devices supports alarms, you must complete this field in order to send alarms in the form of SNMP traps. See Alarms Configuration.
You can use the following SNMP trap check boxes:
- Generate authentication failure traps: The SNMP agent will send SNMP authentication traps when there are authentication failures.
- Generate login traps: The SNMP agent sends SNMP login traps on login attempts.
- Generate cold start traps: The SNMP agent sends traps on cold starts of the Digi device.
- Generate link up traps: The SNMP agent sends link up traps when network connections are established.