4.1.1 System Information Configuration

The System Information Configuration is used to configure switch Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) System-Contact, SNMP System-Location, and switch System-name. See the following figure.

Figure 4-1. System Information Configuration

The System Information Configuration page has the following parameters:

  • System Contact: SNMP MIB-II system contact OID referring to the contact person responsible for the Network device. Textual identification of the contact person for this managed node. String length is 0 to 255, and valid ASCII characters range from 32 to 126.
  • System Name: An administratively assigned name for this managed node. By convention, this is the node's fully qualified domain name. A domain name is a text string drawn from the alphabet (A–Z, a–z), digits (0–9), minus sign (−). No space characters are permitted as part of a name. The first character must be an alpha character. The first or the last character must not be a minus sign. The allowed string length is 0 to 255.
  • System Location: The physical location of this unit. The allowed string length is 0 to 255, and the allowed content is the ASCII characters from 32 to 126.
Note:
  • The System Name field is also used as unit Hostname for the CLI/Telnet/SSH interface
  • The System Name field is also used by DHCP when the hostname within VLAN DHCP configuration field is left blank