community rights

[Yasin_1]

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,

[Ivan KOVAC]

Hello

Use READ CREATE rights.

I.

[Yasin_1]

thanks Ivan.

[David Claypool]

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.

[Mikael Rönnbäck]

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.