Setting The Mode - 3Com LANPLEX 6000 User Manual

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Configuring
Community Strings

Setting the Mode

The system is shipped with the SNMP mode default set for single agent. You
should determine which SNMP mode you want to operate the system in
and set the SNMP mode prior to performing any other SNMP configurations
in the system.
CAUTION: When you change the SNMP mode and reboot the system, you
reset all the SNMP configurations you have set in the Administration Console
to the default values.
To configure the SNMP agent mode:
1 From the top level of the Administration Console, enter:
snmp mode
2 Enter in a new mode
return to the previous menu.
If you entered in a new mode, the following prompts is displayed:
The new mode is different from the current mode. Changing
modes resets the SNMP configuration to the default values.
You must reboot the system for the new mode to take
effect.
Do you want to reboot the system now (n,y) [y]:
3 Enter (yes) or (no) at the prompt. If you entered
y n
reboots. If you entered
next time the system reboots, the new mode will take effect.
A community string is an octet string included in each SNMP message that
controls access to system information. The LANplex SNMP agents internally
maintain two community strings that you can configure:
Read-only with the default "public"
Read-write with the default "private"
When an SNMP agent receives an SNMP request, the community string
in the request is compared with the community strings configured for the
agent. SNMP get, get-next, and set requests are valid if the community string
in the request matches the agent's read-write community. Only the SNMP
Setting Up SNMP on Your System
or
(singleAgent multipleAgent)
(no), you are returned to the previous menu. The
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or enter to
q
(yes) the system
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