Cisco Systems OL-9118-03 manual Changing an Existing Seed File, Configuration Table

Field or Button

Description

Read Community

SNMP community name for read access to the information maintained by the

SNMP agent on the node. This value can be up to 32 characters in length. Do not

include special characters such as the opening single quote ('), at symbol (@),

dollar sign ($), caret (^), closing single quote ('), double quote ("), ampersand

(&), or pipe (). This value is usually set to public (the default).

Poll Interval (mins)

Time, in minutes, between polls. The valid range is 0 to 9999. The default value

is 15 minutes.

IP Address,

Address or name of the selected seed node.

Address range,

To create a new seed file, enter the name or address of a seed node in this field.

Subnet, CIDR, or

Examples of acceptable input include:

DNS Hostname

• IP Address: 1.2.3.4 (see the guidelines for IP addresses in SNMP

Configuration Table, page 3-16).

•

Address Range: 1.2.3.2-15

• Subnet, CIDR: 1.2.3.0/24, 1.2.3.0/255.255.255.0

•

DNS Hostname: mwtm.cisco.com

The MWTM displays details of the SNMP settings for the seed node in the Seed

Details pane.

Continue to add as many seed nodes as necessary to discover your entire network.

When you are ready to save the list of seed nodes in a new seed file, choose File

> Save As from the Discovery Dialog menu. The MWTM displays the Save File

Dialog: Seed File List dialog box (Figure 4-3). See Saving a Seed File, page 4-9

for more information about saving seed files.

Add Node

Adds a new seed node to the MWTM.

Delete

Deletes the selected seed node. The MWTM deletes the seed node without asking

for confirmation.

Next

Displays the Discovery tab in the Discovery dialog box.

If you enter a seed node IP address or name in the IP Address, Address range,

Subnet, CIDR, or DNS Hostname field, then click Next, MWTM automatically

adds the seed node before displaying the Discovery tab.

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