On Jul 20, 2010, at 4:26, yhyun wrote: > > Can someone tell me how does intemapper poll ? Is there a central database? > It looks like if I change the SNMP community in one node in one map, this > does not get automatically updated in the same node that exists in a > different map. Also, it does not update on the map that is running in another > PC. Is this correct? because I updated in a node of a map the SNMP community > but I still get authentication failures. > >
each device on each map stores it's own SNMP community info. You can use intermapper database, but I don't know if that lets you do mass updates (we're just getting started with it here, and it's been running for a couple of months but isn't done importing all our old data so we haven't done much with it yet). There is a menu item that lets you select more than one device on any single map, and update all the community strings at one time for that map, but you need to repeat it for each map on each server that the device you are changing is on. the SNMP string is stored as part of the map IIRC, so if you have 2 servers with the exact same maps (for backup?) then you can update one set of maps, shutdown the server on the other system, copy the maps over, and restart (or a number of variations on that with import, turning off one map, replacing it turning it back on, etc.) In the Change probe dialog box there's a button to just set what you're changing to the default community, but I've never gotten that to work. I'm always too busy when we're doing mass password and community changes to track down if it's user error on my part or an actual bug though, so it may work fine for you. ----- -debbie Debbie Fligor, n9dn Network Engineer, CITES, Univ. of Il email: [email protected] <http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/fligor> "My turn." -River Tam ----- -debbie Debbie Fligor, n9dn Network Engineer, CITES, Univ. of Il email: [email protected] <http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/fligor> "My turn." -River Tam ____________________________________________________________________ List archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/intermapper-talk%40list.dartware.com/ To unsubscribe: send email to: [email protected]
