Cisco Systems 1105 manual Specify Community Strings

Chapter 6 Performing Administrative 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, page 6-9.

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