NET.CFG Options Reference

Desktop SNMP Option

NOTE:If Desktop SNMP receives a request protocol data unit (PDU) whose community name is not authorized, it does not respond to the request.

For example, suppose the control community name is “secret,” and Desktop SNMP receives a SETRequest PDU with a community name of “public.” Desktop SNMP discards the SETRequest UDP and does not respond to the UDP. However, Desktop SNMP does send an authentication trap to the trap targets if

SNMPENABLEAUTHENTRAPS ON.

A community name can be any arbitrary, case-sensitive ASCII string up to 32 characters in length. It can include any characters except space, tab, open square bracket ( [ ), equal sign ( = ), colon ( : ), semicolon ( ; ), single quotation mark ( “ ), or number sign ( # ).

Community name strings are case-sensitive. Therefore, always enclose the community name string in double quotation marks.

In the Desktop SNMP section of the NET.CFG file, you can define three communities, as described in the following table:

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