CLI Reference Guide

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NET.CFG Options Reference
Desktop SNMP Option
NOTE: If Desktop SNMP receives a request protocol data unit (PDU) whose community
name is not authorized, it does not respond to the request.
For example, suppose the control community name is “secret,” and Desktop SNMP
receives a SETRequest PDU with a community name of “public.” Desktop SNMP
discards the SETRequest UDP and does not respond to the UDP. However, Desktop
SNMP does send an authentication trap to the trap targets if
SNMPENABLEAUTHENTRAPS ON.
A community name can be any arbitrary, case-sensitive ASCII string up to
32 characters in length. It can include any characters except space, tab, open
square bracket ( [ ), equal sign ( = ), colon ( : ), semicolon ( ; ), single
quotation mark ( “ ), or number sign ( # ).
Community name strings are case-sensitive. Therefore, always enclose the
community name string in double quotation marks.
In the Desktop SNMP section of the NET.CFG file, you can define three
communities, as described in the following table: