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Chapter 5 Performing Administrative Tasks
Using Discovery and Managing Devices
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User Guide for the CiscoWorks 1105 Wireless LAN Solution Engine
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Specify Community Strings
The Wireless LAN Solution Engine uses a device’s read-only community string
for discovery and the read/write community string to configure the device. If
community strings are not entered correctly, the Wireless LAN Solution Engine
cannot communicate with the device. Both read-only and read/write community
strings are required.
The default community string is public for both the read-only string and the
read-write string. If the community strings on your devices differ from the
defaults, you must specify the community strings before the discovery process can
begin and before you can configure the devices.
Note Your login determines whether you can use this option.
Procedure
Step 1 Select Administration > Discover > Device Credentials > SNMP
Communities. The Bulk SNMP Settings dialog box appears.
This dialog box contains a default entry that covers all devices, provided device
community strings are set to the default (public).
Step 2 Add new entries or modify existing entries in the text box using the following
syntax:
target:read_community::timeout:retries:::write_community
Note You must enter the correct number of colons between variables.
Otherwise, the community strings cannot be read.
Information about the variables follows. For more details, see Community String
Guidelines, page 5-20.