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AlliedView NMS Administration Guide
5.3.7 SNMP Community
An SNMP community helps to define the relationship between the AlliedView NMS and the Management Information Base
(MIB) of the device, in essence defining the operations that can be performed on various objects in the device. For each
device there may be multiple communities, with each community providing a set of operations.
Caution:
In SNMP, a community name acts as a password; if the community includes write operations, it is possible for other
applications to use the community name and change the values for a switch configuration.
When the SNMP Agent application is chosen and the Collect Data icon is clicked, the following figure appears.
FIGURE 5-33 SNMP Community Panel
At this point a new community can be created, or the devices can be selected and the community settings can be modified,
removed, or copied. The Create, Modify, and Copy buttons perform these functions. The following figures shows the
Create, Modify, and Copy SNMP Community forms, which are displayed when these buttons are clicked.
Caution: Creating, modifying, and deleting SNMP Communities for devices managed by the NMS must be done via the NMS and not
the device CLI. Making changes using the device CLI will cause a data mismatch between the device and the NMS
database. If you must make changes using the device CLI, you must also make the changes in the NMS.