Create a Community

About this task

Create a community to use in forming a relationship between an SNMP agent and one or more SNMP managers. You require SNMP community strings for access to the switch using an SNMP-based management software.

Procedure

  1. In the navigation pane, expand Configuration > Edit > SnmpV3.
  2. Click Community Table.
  3. Click Insert.
  4. In the Index box, type an index.
  5. In the Name box, type a name that is a community string.
  6. In the SecurityName box, type a security name.
  7. In the ContextName box, type the context name.
  8. Click Insert.

Community Table field descriptions

Use the data in the following table to use the Community Table tab.

Name

Description

Index

Specifies the unique index value of a row in this table. The range is 1–32 characters.

Name

Specifies the community string for which a row in this table represents a configuration.

SecurityName

Specifies the security name in the VACM group member table to which the community string is mapped. The range is 1–32 characters.

ContextEngineID

Indicates the location of the context in which management information is accessed when using the community string specified in Name.

ContextName

Specifies the context in which management information is accessed when you use the specified community string.
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