> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chad Markley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 2:53 PM
> To: 'Henry Sieff'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: SNMP/Cisco Works 2000 Question
>
>
> So if the client/router is sending traps back to the Cisco
> Works server does
> it need to be to the read write community string?
If the client is sending traps, it just needs a read-only string.
> SNMP is not configured on the server so I wouldn't think it
> matters what the
> community coming back is.
Well, if the server is receiving traps, and not polling, it needs to
have some sort of SNMP Manager (which would be Ciscoworks). However,
the community string is irrelevant here. But there is always some
polling going on, so it would need the communoity-string at some
point.
Henry
>
> What do you think?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Henry Sieff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 12:50 PM
> To: 'Chad Markley'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: SNMP/Cisco Works 2000 Question
>
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Chad Markley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 2:05 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: SNMP/Cisco Works 2000 Question
> >
> >
> > I am setting up Cisco Works 2000 and inputting the necessary
> > commands on the
> > routers and switches.
> >
> > When it comes to inputting the destination where the device is to
> send
> > traps, the syntax is as follows:
> >
> > snmp-server host 172.16.1.1 community-string
> >
> > When I look up the command from the router's command line it
> > tells me the
> > last item is a community-string. However, when I look up the
> > command on the
> > TAC site it refers to the last item as a password.
>
> Well, in SNMP, the only "password" you have IS the community string.
> Only devices which "know" that community string can read (or write,
if
> its RW) that device.
>
> >
> > If the item is a community string should it be the read or
> read-write
> > string? And if it is a password, where do I set this password
> > on the Cisco
> > Works 2000 server?
>
> Well, if all you need to do is collect info, it can be RO. If you
plan
> to write info, it needs to be RW. I suspect that CW2000 needs RW for
> the full range of features.
>
> Henry
>
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