HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM) uses the SNMP to communicate with managed systems. Community strings set up the authentication that enables communication between HP SIM and a managed system. You can enter read community strings in the First Time Wizard, or in the HP SIM menu bar.
(GUI). To disable SNMP communication, enter community strings, or control other SNMP settings not available in the wizard, select Options
Protocol SettingsGlobal Protocol Settings.
If you do not have SNMP systems in your network, you do not need to enter information here. If you have SNMP systems and you do not enter read community strings that match these systems, HP SIM will not discover them.
In the Read community string fields, enter up to four read community strings. Community strings are case-sensitive and apply to all newly discovered systems.
The identification process attempts communication to a system, using each read community in succession until a successful response is obtained. Future SNMP requests use the community string that provided a successful response.
Click Next to go to the next First Time Wizard step.
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