Re: [tkined] use of community string (bug in scotty??)

Juergen Schoenwaelder (schoenw@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de)
Wed, 9 Sep 1998 14:18:31 +0200

>>>>> Harrie Hazewinkel writes:

Harrie> Currently I am testing some SNMP agents in combination of the
Harrie> SCOTTY management application. Now I want to use a different
Harrie> community string as the default "public".

You are using the tkined application...

Harrie> In order to do this (I believe) you have to set the community
Harrie> in the "Set SNMP Parameter"-window. If I change here the
Harrie> community string scotty remembers is correctly. However,
Harrie> everytime I do, for instance, a "Walk MIB Tree" it uses the
Harrie> community string "public".

Harrie> I wonder what I do wrong. Can someone help me, since it even
Harrie> looks like a bug??

You probably want to set the community string on a per node basis,
which also has the advantage that the community string is stored in
the map file. See the FAQ on how to do this.

Juergen

Juergen Schoenwaelder schoenw@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de http://www.cs.tu-bs.de/~schoenw
Technical University Braunschweig, Dept. Operating Systems & Computer Networks
Bueltenweg 74/75, 38106 Braunschweig, Germany. (Tel. +49 531 / 391 3289)

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