Communities - Cisco 350 Series Administration Manual

SNMP

Communities

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Cisco 350, 350X and 550X Series Managed Switches, Firmware Release 2.4, ver 0.4
Click Apply to save the settings.
Access rights in SNMPv1 and SNMPv2 are managed by defining communities in the
Communities page. The community name is a type of shared password between the SNMP
management station and the device. It is used to authenticate the SNMP management station.
Communities are only defined in SNMPv1 and v2 because SNMPv3 works with users instead
of communities. The users belong to groups that have access rights assigned to them.
The Communities page associates communities with access rights, either directly (Basic
mode) or through groups (Advanced mode):
• Basic mode—The access rights of a community can configure with Read Only, Read
Write, or SNMP Admin. In addition, you can restrict the access to the community to
only certain MIB objects by selecting a view (defined in the
• Advanced Mode—The access rights of a community are defined by a group (defined
in the Groups page). You can configure the group with a specific security model. The
access rights of a group are Read, Write, and Notify.
To define SNMP communities:
Click SNMP > Communities.
This page contains a table of configured SNMP communities and their properties. The fields in
this page are described in the Add page except for the following field:
• Community Type—Displays the mode of the community (Basic or Advanced).
Click Add.
This page enables network managers to define and configure new SNMP communities.
SNMP Management Station—Click User Defined to enter the management station IP
address that can access the SNMP community. Click All to indicate that any IP device can
access the SNMP community.
• IP Version—Select either IPv4 or IPv6.
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