Re: valid community strings

2004-11-01 Thread David T. Perkins
HI, Dave't answers below are right on target. One other consideration is the interoperability with managers. Some poorly designed managers make assumptions about community string values, such as ONLY ASCII letters and digits (no spaces or punctuation characters). Also, some agents also have the

Re: valid community strings

2004-11-01 Thread Dave Shield
> I would also like to know whether community string can be unicode > or is it only ASCII? The same answer applies: > Nothing inherent in SNMP, no. > Assorted MIB tables make various assumptions DisplayString is defined as being ASCII only. SnmpAdminString can take UTF values. So if you used

Re: valid community strings

2004-10-31 Thread Mayuresh Dhagamwar
THanks a lot dave.   I would also like to know whether community string can be unicode or is it only ASCII?   Thanks in advance, -Mayuresh. Dave Shield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would like to know if there is any restriction on the length of community> string and also the characters that comp

Re: valid community strings

2004-10-29 Thread Dave Shield
> I would like to know if there is any restriction on the length of community > string and also the characters that comprise a community string. Nothing inherent in SNMP, no. Assorted MIB tables make various assumptions, so I'd certainly avoid anything longer than 255 characters (DisplayString,

valid community strings

2004-10-28 Thread Mayuresh Dhagamwar
Hi All,   I would like to know if there is any restriction on the length of community string and also the characters that comprise a community string.   Your reply would be highly appreciated.   Thanks and regards, -Mayuresh. [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I guess errors would be helpful:i386-mingw32msv