If you are adding a community, the fields in this screen are blank.

If you are editing an existing community, the values for the selected community appear in the fields.

Configuring the Switch From the Console

Configurable Features

type the value for this field

use the Space bar to select values for other fields

 

Figure 4-8. The SNMP Communities Add or Edit Screen

 

 

N o t e

If you choose to not restrict the use of a community to specific network

 

management stations, you do not need to list the manager addresses on this

 

screen. You can use this screen to just configure community names and to set

 

the MIB View and Write Access for each community.

 

All community names that you create using this screen can be used to access

 

the switch into which the Switch Management Module is installed. Any

 

management station using the correct community name may access the switch

 

with the corresponding MIB View and Write Access levels.

 

If you want to restrict access to one or more specific management stations for

 

a given SNMP community, listing the addresses of those stations on this screen

 

creates that limitation. For each SNMP Community, you can authorize up to

 

ten management stations by entering their IP and/or IPX addresses into the

 

Manager Address field.

 

3. Enter the appropriate value in each of the above fields (use the [Tab] key

 

 

 

or arrow keys to move from one field to the next).

 

4.

Press [Enter], then [S] (for Save), and the new SNMP Community configu-

 

 

ration is automatically activated.

 

5.

Return to the Main Menu to access other functions.

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