Under the 'File' menu item, a 'Settings' option can be found. SNMP Settings and features can be modified with this window.
| Enable Node Cleaning | This feature reduces the number of branches to a minumum. Without this feature being enabled, the number of clicks required to get to the end of a tree branch may by a lot more. |
| Enable Inference | Only the very end of branches have values. Opening all the branches takes up a lot of screen space and/or time (click on all relevent nodes). Inference has been used to overcome these innate weaknesses in graphical SNMP browsers. This is done by showing values to branches that are not fully open, based on it's relative position to the end branch that you have selected. Although a mouth full in words, it is extremely intuitive. |
| Inferred Cell Color | Cells showing inferred values have this color as their background. |
| Enable Write | If this feature is enabled then clicking on a cell will permit you to edit its value. A SNMP server will have to have been specifically setup to allow values to be changed, even if this is done not all values will be writable. SNMP-Probe cannot know wether writing is permitted until it makes the attempt to write the value. If the server does not permit the change a error message will be offered. |
| Timeout and Retries | The timeout is the amount of time (in seconds) SNMP-Probe will wait for a response from the server before re-sending the request. Once the number of resend attempts reaches the Retries value, the program assumes no response will be forthcoming and report an error to the user. |
| Base | This specifies the point in the tree from which the walk will start. To get the entire tree a start of .1.3 is often used. You could also limit the data by entering the part of the tree that you are interested in, i.e. system, would return all system MIBs. |