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--- admin-snmp [2024/10/21 20:05] – -Condense, formatting hogwild
+++ admin-snmp [2024/10/21 20:16] (current) – -Clarify risks of enabling Remote Acess hogwild
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 In this menu you can configure Simple Network Management Protocol settings.
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+ \\ The Simple Network Management Protocol is used for network monitoring and management. It allows you to collect and organize information about devices on IP networks, and can even allow you to modify that information to change device behavior.
-The Simple Network Management Protocol is used for network monitoring and management. It allows you to collect and organize information about devices on IP networks, and can even allow you to modify that information to change device behavior.
 SNMP has a simple client-server architecture. In SNMP:
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 **Remote Access: **inserts a firewall rule to expose a UDP port (of above number) to the WAN interface.
-Note that **this makes SNMP a non-secure protocol**. Any device that can "speak" SNMP could theoretically query the SNMP devices or access Manager data?. Thus, for security, you are strongly urged to enter a setting in the //Allowed Remote IP Address// field described below and to add an RO Community string.
+//Enabling this makes SNMP a non-secure protocol//. Theoretically, any device that can "speak" SNMP could query SNMP devices or access Manager data. Thus, for security, you are strongly urged to enter a setting in the //Allowed Remote IP Address// field described below and add an //RO Community string//.
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