Setting Up SNMP on Your System
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Displaying SNMP
Settings
To display the current module SNMP configurations for community
strings, enter the following at the top-level menu:
snmp display
The following example shows an SNMP settings display:
Configuring
Community Strings
A community string is an octet string, included in each SNMP message,
that controls access to system information. The SNMP software for the
module internally maintains two community strings that you can
configure:
■
Read-only
community strings with the default “public”
■
Read-write
community strings with the default “private”
When the SNMP software receives an SNMP request, the module
compares the community string in the request with the community
strings that are configured for the module.
■
SNMP
get
,
get-next
, and
set
requests are valid if the community string
in the request matches the module’s
read-write
community.
■
Only the SNMP
get
and
get-next
requests are valid if the community
string in the request matches the module’s
read-only
community
string.
When you set a community string, you can specify any value up to
48 characters long.
To configure the community strings:
1
Enter the following at the top-level menu:
snmp community
The system prompts you for the new community strings.
Enter new read-only community {?} [public]:
2
At the read-only prompt, enter the new community string.
Enter new read-write community {?} [private]:
3
At the read-write prompt, enter the new community string.
The following example retains the read-only community string as public
and sets a secret read-write community string:
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