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User Guide for the CiscoWorks 1105 Wireless LAN Solution Engine
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Chapter6 Performing Administrati ve Tasks Using Discovery and Managing Devices
Specify Community Strings
The Wireless LAN Solution Engine uses a device’s read-only community string
to discover the device and uses the read/write community string to configure the
device. If community strings are not entered correctly, the Wireless LAN Solution
Engine cannot communicate with the device. Both read-only and read/write
community strings are required.
The default community string is public for both the read-only string and the
read-write string. If the community strings on your devices differ from the
defaults, you must specify the community strings before the discovery process can
begin and before you can configure the devices.
Note Your login determines whether you can use this option.
Procedure
Step 1 Select Administration > Discover > Device Credentials > SNMP
Communities. The SNMP Communities dialog box appears.
This dialog box contains a default entry that covers all devices, provided device
community strings are set to the default (public).
Step 2 To add new entries, you can enter community strings by using either of the
following methods:
•Use the individual text boxes and list for the variables: Hostname (IP
address), Read Community, SNMP Timeout, SNMP Retries, and Write
Community. Then click Add. The community string appears in the large
textbox.
•Enter the data directly in the large text box using the following syntax:
target:read_community::timeout:retries:::write_community
Note You must enter the correct number of colons between variables.
Otherwise, the community strings cannot be read.
Information about the variables follows. For more details, see Community String
Guidelines, page6-9.