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Re: A question about snmp community strings

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Subject: Re: A question about snmp community strings
From: "Owens, Blaine C" <bowens@EASTMAN.COM>
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 16:20:00 -0500
Reply-to: Discussion of IBM NetView and POLYCENTER Manager on NetView <NV-L@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU>
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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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