Hmm, I'm not sure you understand the meaning of the read community name. Snmp gives a lot of info, so it makes your device vulnerable, security wise. Therefore you have to define a read only password and a read write password on your device, to keep the wrong people out.
Those passwords are called communities in snmp world. The read only password defaults to "public" and the read/write password defaults to "private". Don't keep those, though. It's the first thing malicious hackers will try. For now: - Make sure your device accepts udp on port 161 from you - Make sure the device has an snmp agent configured. - Make sure you are using the wrong community name - if snmpget won't work, first try snmpwalk to view an entire tree. Serge Maandag. -----Original Message----- From: spiekey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 6:56 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [rrd-users] Re: SNMP - what do i do wrong? Hello! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Claude R Trepanier/Bromont" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "spiekey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "rrd-users" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 6:44 PM Subject: [rrd-users] Re: SNMP - what do i do wrong? > > try: $ snmpget 192.168.1.40 read_community_name system.sysDescr.0 > > Obviously you replace read_community_name with the proper name. I > think the > capital D in sysDescr is your problem. Then i get this: # snmpget 192.168.1.40 read_community_name system.sysDescr.0 Timeout: No Response from 192.168.1.40. ;( Spiekey > > Claude R Trépanier > Support de l'infrastructure du réseau > IBM Bromont -- Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Help mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/rrd-users WebAdmin http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/lsg2.cgi
