Mary, try escaping the dollar sign with a back-slash:
snmpwalk -c netview\$monitor routeripaddress
Blaine Owens
Eastman Chemical Company
Email - bowens@eastman.com
Phone - (423)229-3579
Fax - (423)229-1188
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mary H Farris [SMTP:Mary_Farris@FREDDIEMAC.COM]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 25, 1998 4:15 PM
> To: NV-L@UCSBVM.ucsb.edu
> Subject: A question about snmp community strings
>
> All,
>
> I am trying to test snmp access to one of our customer routers. To
> test
> I used the "snmpwalk -c " command but I can't seem to get snmp
> replies. I
> put a sniffer on the ring where my nms server is and captured the snmp
> data
> going to this router. What I found is that the community string the
> sniffer captured and the community string I used on the command line
> were
> different. As an example if the community string was netview$monitor
> and
> I typed "snmpwalk -c netview$monitor routeripaddress" then the
> sniffer
> capture would display the community string of "netview" it would
> just
> drop everything after the $. Is the $ a special character that
> cannot be
> used in community strings? If this is not a limitation
>
> thanks,
>
> Mary_Farris@freddiemac.com
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