Getting Started
System requirements
- The Windows utility should run under any 32 bit version of the Windows operating system,
while the Linux version should run under any Linux distribution (developed under RedHat Linux 7.3)
or FreeBSD with Linux emulation installed (tested under v4.8-STABLE, v5.2.0-RELEASE).
- You must have a D-Link DSL-500 or DSL-504 ADSL router with a version of
the firmware which supports SNMP. There are a few firmware versions which do
not support SNMP. Check the firmware notes section in the DSL-500 and
DSL-504 Info Dump at www.sentry.org.
- Note that the DSL-500G and DSL-504G are incompatible and
probably will not work 100% with this utility as they use a different hardware
chipset, different firmware and different web interface.
Utility operation
- The utility needs two pieces of information to be entered in the
System Tab in order for it to work.
These are: (1) the IP address of the router and (2) the writable SNMP
community name of the router. Unless you have changed either of these,
the factory defaults of 192.168.0.1 and private should work.
- An INI file records all utility settings
on exit and reloads the settings on startup.
Information monitored
The utility monitors a wide range of information which it retrieves from the
router using SNMP. There is a separate tab for each group of related information. The tabs are:
Context sensitive help
A comprehensive context sensitive help system is only ever an F1 key
press away.