topic Re: community rights in Server Management - Systems Insight Manager

community rights

Yasin_1 — Fri, 03 Sep 2004 00:43:51 GMT

dear all,

i don't know which options more suitable the other options in the snmp service, under the security tab community rights for manageable clients.
READ ONLY,READ WRITE,READ CREATE
which sould i use for client setting?
thanks for help,

Re: community rights

Ivan KOVAC — Fri, 03 Sep 2004 04:12:09 GMT

Hello

Use READ CREATE rights.

I.

Re: community rights

Yasin_1 — Fri, 03 Sep 2004 04:36:39 GMT

thanks Ivan.

Re: community rights

David Claypool — Fri, 03 Sep 2004 10:09:38 GMT

Please note: hpSIM doesn't need a write community string at all really, since it never does any writing. It can get along with just a read string. Any 'transaction' that hpSIM does is not done through SNMP but through HTTPS.

However, the agents use SNMP to communicate among themselves, so you MUST have a READ-WRITE string named in the SNMP service (READ-CREATE is NOT necessary). This can be different from the read string that hpSIM uses. Configured this way your string will only be used internally and never cross the wire.

Re: community rights

Mikael Rönnbäck — Tue, 07 Sep 2004 09:16:39 GMT

You do need snmp read-write access to be able to set values such as thresholds, or clear logs, but those are of course operator initiated actions.