46NetBotz Appliance User’s Guide
Adding, editing, and removing SNMP targets
1. Double-click the Scanned Devices icon. The SNMP Target window appears.
2. To remove SNMP targets from the SNMP Targets list, select SNMP target entries and click
Remove.
3. To add a new SNMP target, click Add. To edit a target, select the target from the SNMP Targets
list and click Edit.
4. The Add SNMP Device window or Edit SNMP Device window appears. Configure the SNMP
target using the item descriptions for both windows shown below. When finished, click OK.
Item Description
Host/IP Address The hostname or IP address of the SNMP target.
Label A label to identify this target.
Alert profile The severity of alerts generated when this target becomes
unavailable.
Scan interval
(minutes)
How often a scan will occur.
Port The port number used for SNMP communications on the target.
The default is 161.
Timeout in seconds The number of seconds that scanners wait for a response from a
target before scanners either retry communications or consider the
target unresponsive. The default is 30 seconds.
Retries The number of times scanners retry communications with an
SNMP target that is not responding before considering the target
unresponsive and moving to the next target.
Delete SNMP sensors
if not found on SNMP
device
Automatically removes previously defined SNMP-based sensors
on a target when, after a successful scan, the sensors are found to
be no longer defined. If the sensors are not deleted, they are
displayed with sensor reading values of N/A or null.
Include network
interface status
Check to include network interface status.
User When the SNMP target is an APC device, enter the user name set
for the APC device. The default for the User field on the Add
SNMP Device window is apc.
For information about the user name set for the device, see the user
documentation for the device.
Password/Verify
password
When the SNMP target is an APC device, enter the password set
for the APC device. The default for this field on the Add SNMP
Device window is apc.
For information about the user name set for the device, see the user
documentation for the device.
Version The version of SNMP used to communicate with the target.
Read community The read-only community string used for SNMP communications
on the target. The default value is public.
Verify Enter the Read community string again to verify.