Operation Manual – SNMPH3C S9500 Series Routing Switches Chapter 1 SNMP Configuration1-3MIB attribute MIB content ReferencesDHCP MIB —QACL MIB —ADBM MIB —RSTP MIB —VLAN MIB —Device management —Private MIBInterface management —1.2 Configuring SNMPThe following sections describe the SNMP configuration tasks.z Setting Community Namesz Setting the System Informationz Enabling SNMP Agent to Send Trapz Setting the Destination Address of Trapz Setting Lifetime of Trap Messagez Setting the Engine ID of a Local Devicez Setting an SNMP Groupz Setting the Source Address of Trapz Adding a User to an SNMP Groupz Creating/Updating View Informationz Setting the Size of the SNMP Packet Sent/Received by an Agentz Disabling SNMP Agentz Extending the Standard linkUp/linkDown Traps1.2.1 Setting Community Namesz SNMP V1 and SNMPV2C adopt the community name authentication scheme.SNMP Community is named with a character string, which is called communityname. SNMP community name defines the relationship between SNMP managerand SNMP agent. The community name functions like a password, that is, itcontrols the access of the SNMP manager to the SNMP agent. You can choose tospecify one or more community name-related features: Define MIB views of all theaccessible MIB subsets.z Define the read-only or read-write access mode of the community name to the MIB.The community with read-only authority can only query the device information,whereas the community with read-write authority can also configure the device.Perform the following configuration in system view: