System Tab

The System Tab displays some general system information about your router.

Communications settings

Router IP address

This must be set to the current IP address of your router. If this is not correctly set, this utility will not be able to communicate with the router.

Router SNMP community name

This must be set to the current SNMP read or write community name of your router. If this is not correctly set, this utility will not be able to communicate with the router.

Reset defaults

This button will reset these values to the router's factory defaults using the default IP address of 192.168.0.1 and choosing the read and write access SNMP community name.

The SNMP community name of "private" provides both read and write access. The SNMP community name of "public" provides read-only access.

Firmware details

This panel shows:

Copy to clipboard

This button will copy the information displayed in the firmware details panel to your clipboard, from where you can then paste the details into another application (eg web browser, word processor etc).

Router system information

Router contact name

This shows you the name of the contact person for this router. The factory default is blank. You can fill it in and then press the "Set Value" button to set it.

Router fully qualified domain name

This shows you the fully qualified domain name (eg router1.yourdomain.com) for this router. The factory default is blank. You can fill it in and then press the "Set Value" button to set it.

Router location

This shows you the location (eg my bedroom) for this router. The factory default is blank. You can fill it in and then press the "Set Value" button to set it.

Help

The "Help" button will display the context-sensitive help file for this tab. Pressing F1 at any time will also display the context-sensitive help file.

Update

The "Update" button will update the information displayed in this tab.