SNMP

SNMP read access is required to allow RICOH Streamline NX to discover and monitor the device. When you open the SNMP tab, a default account is created. The default account details are as follows:

  • Profile name: default
  • Protocol: SNMP v1/v2
  • Read Community: public
  • Write Community: admin

Follow the steps below to create an SNMP account profile. You can create up to 300 SNMP accounts.

  1. Go to [Discovery & Polling] → [Access Profiles] and click the [SNMP] tab.

  2. Click (Add).

  3. Enter the necessary information.

    Item

    Description

    Profile Name

    Name the account you are about to create. This is a required field.

    Description

    This is an optional field.

    Retry

    Specify how many retry attempts can be performed if a device does not respond during discovery.

    The default value is 2.

    Timeout

    Specify how long the waiting period is if a device does not respond during discovery.

    Specify a value between 500 and 60000 milliseconds. The default is 3000 milliseconds.

    Security Group Context

    Select the device group to which to allow access.

    The security group items are displayed when the group restriction function is enabled in the security settings, and you can restrict the device group to be specified for the template target.

    For details about Group Restrictions, refer to Configure Group Restrictions.

    Protocol

    Select the type of protocol to use. Configuration items vary depending on protocol types.

    • SNMP v1/v2

    • SNMP v3

    Read Community Name

    Enter [Read Community Name]. Specify this item when [SNMP v1/v2] is selected in [Protocol].

    The Read Community Name can contain up to 15 characters.

    The default value is “public”.

    Write Community Name

    Enter [Write Community Name]. Specify this item when selecting [SNMP v1/v2] in [Protocol].

    The Write Community Name can contain up to 15 characters.

    The default value is “admin”.

    User Name

    Enter the user name. Specify this item when selecting [SNMP v3] in [Protocol].

    The user name can contain up to 32 characters.

    Password

    Enter the password. Specify this item when selecting [SNMP v3] in [Protocol].

    The password can contain up to 128 characters.

    Authentication Algorithm

    Select the authentication algorithm.

    • SHA1

    • MD5

    • SHA2(224bit)

    • SHA2(256bit)

    • SHA2(384bit)

    • SHA2(512bit)

    Specify this item when selecting [SNMP v3] in [Protocol].

    The default value is MD5

    Context Name

    Enter the context name. Specify this item when selecting [SNMP v3] in [Protocol].

    The context name can contain up to 256 characters.

    Encrypted Password

    Enter the encryption password. Specify this item when selecting [SNMP v3] in [Protocol].

    The encrypted password can contain up to 32 characters.

    Encryption Algorithm

    Select the encryption algorithm to be used.

    • DES

    • AES128

    Specify this item when selecting [SNMP v3] in [Protocol].

  1. Click [Save] to create the account profile.