Learn how to configure a community string
to send notification of significant system issues and events.
About this task
You configure an SNMPv2 community string
community string (SNMP string) to access device information via SNMP. It is important to
configure the string correctly; otherwise the request for device and system information
will be ignored and fail silently.
- All SNMP access is read-only.
- SNMP v1 and v2c is the default.
Procedure
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Run the configure terminal command to access
Config mode.
The command line changes
to configuration
mode.
device(config)#
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Run the command
snmp-server community community-name to
configure the SNMP v2 string, replacing the variable with the name of the
community to be monitored.
device# snmp-server community extreme03
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Exit configuration mode and run the
show snmp server command
to verify that the SNMP community you configured is listed with all supported
communities in the output, as shown in the following example.
device# show snmp server
snmp-server community extreme03
