Re: community name with special characters

[Markus G. <ma...@ga...>]

Hi Ashok!
You must quote strings containing $ signs on a linux shell. Use 'single 
quotes', otherwise your string will be interpreted as a variable name.

br,
Markus

On Oct 17, ashok kumar <ash...@gm...> wrote:

> Hello Harish,
> 
> It is me (Ashok) who reported this issue (community name is not working with
> special characters).
> 
> How did I verified:
> 
> 1. I added two entries snmpd.conf as below:
>      rwcommunity ashok123
>      rwcommunity ashok$123
> 
> 2. I executed the snmpd and tried the following things:
>      [ashok@localhost commands]$ snmpget -v2c -c ashok123 localhost
> 1.3.6.1.2.1.1.3.0
>      DISMAN-EVENT-MIB::sysUpTimeInstance = Timeticks: (52765) 0:08:47.65
>      [ashok@localhost commands]$
> 
>      [ashok@localhost commands]$ snmpget -v2c -c ashok$123 localhost
> 1.3.6.1.2.1.1.3.0
>      Timeout: No Response from localhost.
>      [ashok@localhost commands]$
> 
> I get a response with community "ashok123" but not with "ashok$123"
> 
> Regards,
> Ashok
> 
> 
> On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 4:30 PM, Harish Jadhav <ha...@te...>
> wrote:
>       Venkat,
>
>       How are you verifying that community string is not working?
>
>       As far as I know, I am very much sure that community string can
>       have special characters also.
>
>       On 10/17/2011 2:47 PM, ashok kumar wrote:
>       Hello Venkat,
>
>       I am trying with alpha numeric (only alphabets and
>       numbers) and it is working. When I add some special
>       character in the community name (say '$'), its not
>       working.
>
>       Can any one tell me if there is any way to make it work
>       even with special characters. Thanks.
>
>       Regards,
>       Ashok
> 
> On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 3:01 PM, venkat easwar
> <har...@ya...> wrote:
>       Hi Ashok,
> 
> As far as I am aware, the SNMP community name should be
> Alpha numeric.
> 
> Thanks 
> [IMAGE][IMAGE]VENKAT[IMAGE][IMAGE]
> From: ashok kumar <ash...@gm...>
> To: net...@li...
> Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2011 1:36 PM
> Subject: community name with special characters
> 
> Hello All,
> 
> I am adding a community
> "benu1benu2benu3$enu4benu5benu6benu7benu8" in
> snmpd.conf file but I am not able to use snmpget through
> this
> community.
> 
> Is this because, there is a special character '$' in the
> community
> name and if so, what are the special characters net-snmp
> will not
> allow for community name. Thanks.
> 
> Regards,
> Ashok
> 
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