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Setting Community Access Strings

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Setting Community Access Strings

You may configure up to five community strings authorized for management access
by clients using SNMP v1 and v2c. All community strings used for IP Trap Managers
should be listed in this table. For security reasons, you should consider removing the
default strings.

Command Attributes
SNMP Community Capability – The switch supports up to five community strings.
Current – Displays a list of the community strings currently configured.
Community String – A community string that acts like a password and permits

access to the SNMP protocol.
Default strings: “public” (read-only access), “private” (read/write access)
Range: 1-32 characters, case sensitive

Access Mode – Specifies the access rights for the community string:

- Read-Only – Authorized management stations are only able to retrieve MIB

objects.

- Read/Write – Authorized management stations are able to both retrieve and

modify MIB objects.

Web – Click SNMP, Configuration. Add new community strings as required, select
the access rights from the Access Mode drop-down list, then click Add.

Figure 5-2 Configuring SNMP Community Strings

CLI – The following example adds the string “spiderman” with read/write access.

Specifying Trap Managers and Trap Types

Traps indicating status changes are issued by the switch to specified trap managers.
You must specify trap managers so that key events are reported by this switch to
your management station. You can specify up to five management stations that will
receive authentication failure messages and other trap messages from the switch.

Console(config)#snmp-server community spiderman rw

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