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Re: community name with special characters
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From: Harish J. <ha...@te...> - 2011-10-17 12:26:48
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Ashok, Hope you got the answer from Markus. That's the reason I asked you how are you concluding that community string is not working as I suspected the way you are passing the community string could be wrong. Please use quote in case community string has $. On 10/17/2011 5:32 PM, ashok kumar 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$123" > > Regards, > Ashok > > > On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 4:30 PM, Harish Jadhav > <ha...@te... <mailto:ha...@te...>> wrote: > > Venkat, > > How are you verifying that community string is not working? > > As far as I know, I am very much sure that community string can > have special characters also. > > > On 10/17/2011 2:47 PM, ashok kumar wrote: >> Hello Venkat, >> >> I am trying with alpha numeric (only alphabets and numbers) and >> it is working. When I add some special character in the community >> name (say '$'), 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... <mailto:har...@ya...>> wrote: >> >> Hi Ashok, >> >> As far as I am aware, the SNMP community name should be Alpha >> numeric. >> >> Thanks >> VENKAT >> *From:* ashok kumar <ash...@gm... >> <mailto:ash...@gm...>> >> *To:* net...@li... >> <mailto: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 >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure >> contains a >> definitive record of customers, application performance, security >> threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data >> and makes >> sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct >> _______________________________________________ >> Net-snmp-users mailing list >> Net...@li... >> <mailto:Net...@li...> >> Please see the following page to unsubscribe or change other >> options: >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/net-snmp-users >> >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a >> definitive record of customers, application performance, security >> threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes >> sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Net-snmp-users mailing list >> Net...@li... <mailto:Net...@li...> >> Please see the following page to unsubscribe or change other options: >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/net-snmp-users > > |
