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7: Management Assistant

Overview

The following advanced features are provided.

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SNMP

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Email Alert

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SNMP

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Syslog

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This chapter contains details of the configuration and use of each of these features.

SNMP

This section is only useful if you have SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) software on

your PC. If you have SNMP software, you can use a standard MIB II file with the Load Balancer.

Figure 28 SNMP

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Settings – SNMP

System

Information

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Contact Person

– The name of the person responsible for this device.

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Device name

– The name of the Load Balancer.

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Physical Location

– The location of the Load Balancer.

Trap Targets

Enter the IP address of any targets (PCs running SNMP software) to which you

want traps to be sent. All traps are level 1.

Email Alert

This feature will send an warning Email, inform system administrator that one of the WAN ports was

disconnected.

Email Alert

– You can choose to enable or disable it to send a warning email.

Email

Sender Address

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It is an email address which will send the warning email.

Email (SMTP) Server Address

– It is an email server address the warning email will be sent to.

Email Recipient Address

– It is an email address of system administrator the email will be sent to.

Figure 29 Email Alert

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Settings – Email Alert

Email Alert

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Enable

– This will enable email alert to send an warning email when

WAN port was disconnected.

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Disable

– This will disable email alert not to send an warning email

when WAN port was disconnected.

Email Sender

Address

Email Sender Address

- It is an email address that sends a warning email

to a recipient. Inform that a recipient checks if there is any problem on WAN

ports or not.

Email (SMTP) Server Address -

It is an email sever a warning

email will be sent to. If you are enabled email alert. For example:

mail.domain.com.

Email(SMTP) server user name –

This is the user name

of email sender for authentication (optional).

Email(SMTP)server

password -

This is the user password

Email (SMTP)

Server Address

It is an email sever a warning email will be sent to. If you are enabled email

alert. For example: mail.domain.com

Email Recipient

Address

It is an email address a warning email will be sent to. Usually it is system

administrator email address. For example: [email protected]

Excessive Ping

Notification

This feature is useful to prevent ICMP attack from WAN or LAN. It will drop

the packets if the ping times are excessive the threshold value. It will send

email to the administrator, if email is enabled.

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Syslog

This feature can send real time system information on the web page or to the specified PC.

Syslog Configuration –

Syslog Configuration allow you where to send system information to other

machine or not. There are up to three machines you can choose to send your system log.

Message Status–

Messages send only keep when “keep send message” checked. Currently we

keep last 100 messages in the RAM area, they will clear when reboot or power off.

Figure 30 Syslog

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Syslog Configuration

Syslog Global

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Enable

– Set to “enable”, if you want to send system log messages to

other machine.

Keep Sent Messages

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Enable

– Checked this, if you want to keep sent messages,otherwise

the sent messages will be deleted.

Syslog Server

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IP address:

Up to 3 syslog servers can be used.

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Enable:

You can enable or disable each server temporarily.

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Port:

If your syslog server does not use the default port, you can change

it.

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Log Priority Level:

The syslog messages are divided into 8 levels, from

Emergency to Debug level. The lower level, the less messages will be

generated. Emergency is the lowest priority level, and Debug is the

highest one.

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