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Appendix A RME Troubleshooting Tips and FAQs
Device Management
A.
To check the device credentials while adding devices to RME, you have to enable the Verify Device
Credentials While Adding Devices option in the Device Management Settings window (Resource
Manager Essentials > Admin > Device Mgmt > Device Management Settings).
You can select the device credentials that have to be verified in the Device Credential Verification
Settings window (Resource Manager Essentials > Admin > Device Mgmt > Device Credential
Verification Settings).
Q.
What are device credentials and RME device attributes?
A.
The following are the device credentials:
• SNMP Read Community String
• SNMP Write Community String
• SNMPv3
• Telnet
• Telnet Enable Mode User Name and Password
• SSH
• SSH Enable Mode User Name and Password
The following are the RME device attributes:
• Serial Number
• SNMP Retry
• SNMP Timeout
• Telnet Timeout
• RME ID (NAT ID)
Q.
How are the device credentials mapped in Device and Credential Repository?
A.
The following table describes the mapping of device credentials in Device and Credential
Repository:
The order of preference to set these values in Device and Credential Repository is:
• If Tacacs username, password, enable password is set, then these values will be set as
primary_username, primary_password and primary_enable_password.
Device Credentials Device and Credential Repository
Telnet password primary_password
Enable password primary_enable_password
Enable secret primary_enable_password
Tacacs username primary_username
Tacacs password primary_password
Tacacs enable username Not used in CSV 3.0
Tacacs enable password primary_enable_password
Local username primary_username
Local password primary_password