Defining Communities - Dell PowerConnect 2808 User Manual

Defining Communities

Access rights are managed by defining communities in the Community Table. When the community
names are changed, access rights are also changed.To open the SNMP Community page, click System 
SNMP  Community in the tree view.
Figure 6-16. SNMP Community
• SNMP Management Station — A list of management station IP addresses.
• Community String — Functions as a password and used to authenticate the selected management
station to the device.
• Access Mode — Defines the access rights of the community. The possible field values are:
– Read Only — The management access is restricted to read-only, for all MIBs except the
community table, for which there is no access.
– Read Write — The management access is read-write, for all MIBs except the community table, for
which there is no access.
– SNMP Admin — The management access is read-write for all MIBs, including the community
table.
• Remove — Removes a community, when selected.
Defining a New Community
1 Open the SNMP Community page.
2 Click Add.
The Add SNMP Community page opens:
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