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?
SNMP is not configured on the server so I wouldn't think it matters what the
community coming back is.
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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