SNMP in practise

[stek]

Should the community string be public?

[Batcher]

Should the community string be public?

Please keep that technology rubbish off the political forums.

Thank you.

[DaveB]

Should the community string be public?

Poor showing on the parody threads....

Anyway, there are two types of Community String used by SNMP capable devices.

The Read Only SNMP Community String on a device is the equivalent of a password for that device when comminicating SNMP traffic, and allows the device to respond to requests for information from it (Read Only). By convention most vendors ship it set to PUBLIC as in the word, not as in a setting. This is what is usually referred to as the "default public community string". It is good practice for network admins to change the SNMP Community String to something else when configuring the device.

There is also a Read-Write Community String. This allows remote devices to send requests to modify the settings on the local device if the string is correct. This should never ever be set to "Public" and should always be what would be considered a Strong Password.

[vetran]

Poor showing on the parody threads....

Anyway, there are two types of Community String used by SNMP capable devices.

The Read Only SNMP Community String on a device is the equivalent of a password for that device when comminicating SNMP traffic, and allows the device to respond to requests for information from it (Read Only). By convention most vendors ship it set to PUBLIC as in the word, not as in a setting. This is what is usually referred to as the "default public community string". It is good practice for network admins to change the SNMP Community String to something else when configuring the device.

There is also a Read-Write Community String. This allows remote devices to send requests to modify the settings on the local device if the string is correct. This should never ever be set to "Public" and should always be what would be considered a Strong Password.

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[Batcher]

Poor showing on the parody threads....

Anyway, there are two types of Community String used by SNMP capable devices.

The Read Only SNMP Community String on a device is the equivalent of a password for that device when comminicating SNMP traffic, and allows the device to respond to requests for information from it (Read Only). By convention most vendors ship it set to PUBLIC as in the word, not as in a setting. This is what is usually referred to as the "default public community string". It is good practice for network admins to change the SNMP Community String to something else when configuring the device.

There is also a Read-Write Community String. This allows remote devices to send requests to modify the settings on the local device if the string is correct. This should never ever be set to "Public" and should always be what would be considered a Strong Password.

tl;dr

[darmstadt]

Please keep that technology rubbish off the political forums.

Thank you.

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tl;dr

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