Re: Seperate Read-Write Communities
mje@posix.co.za
Sat, 29 Jun 1996 08:42:12 +0000
On Jun 28, 4:11pm, Alan Hannan wrote:
} ] > IS there a way to open a session with seperate read and write
} ] > communities in Scotty? Currently I open 2 sessions to each
}
} ] No. However, I see the practical value of your suggestion. It would
} ] require to make the SNMP session structure a bit more complex
} ]
} ] -community -writecommunity (SNMPv1/SNMPv2C)
} ] -password -writepassword (SNMPv2U)
}
} Actually, I've given this matter a lot of thought, both wrt
} read/write communities, and also separate communities.
}
} I'd very much like to see the SNMP read string and SNMP write
} string be an 'attribute' of the node. Likewise, the default would
} still exist, and if no 'SNMP Read' attribute, it used that.
}-- End of excerpt from Alan Hannan
I spoke to Juergen about this some time ago and my thoughts were the same.
This allows then full flexibility. ie... have a global default
RO community, a default RW community, which can be overridden by individual
node attributes - also held as seperate snmp_ro and snmp_rw variables.
(I assume that we are talking of the same thing ?)
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