So yesterday we did the periodic update of all passwords and snmp communities on our network devices. I needed to update maps. In a map, after making it editable, I would select all the devices, then choose "Set Community…" from the Monitoring Menu. Having already gone into server settings and updated the default SNMP community I would have thought clicking on "Use Default" would have switched everything to the new SNMP community.
It closed the window, however, it appeared to do nothing with the SNMP community. repeated re-polls of the device with cmd-K did nothing. Yet if I follow the same steps and instead type in the new name in the dialog box, it immediately starts using that new community name. to verify, if I make a brand new item on the same map, taking the default filled-in community name, it does come right up, so the "default" is really the new community name. I've tried to do the "Use Default" button off and on for years as I do these updates, but I'm always so pressed for time working on the maps that I never stopped to mess with it before. I will say I like that there is some way to bulk change community names, it beats the daylights out of the old way we used to do it -- editing the machine code representation of the maps with search and replace. Is there something else that button is supposed to do instead? Perhaps I'm missing the more correct use of it? ----- -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]
