Read community strings
You can specify the read
community strings
that are used by discovery in several different places:
- Discovery filter
- Seed file
- Add AgentcommandIf read community strings are specified for a discovery filter, theIP Manageruses those community strings when polling the systems that match the discovery filter. The provides information about specifying read community strings for a discovery filter.If no read community string is specified in a discovery filter, or no community string is specified in the seed file or through theAdd Agentcommand, or the specified community string is not correct, theIP Managerselects a community string in the following manner:
- Tries the community strings that appear in the Read Community Strings window (Topology tab) of the Domain Manager Administration Console.
- If no community strings appear in the Read Community Strings window, reads the default read community string in the discovery.conf file.
- If no read community strings are found for a system, places the system on the Pending Devices list during an initial discovery attempt, or notifies a DiscoveryError during a rediscovery attempt.Initial discovery and rediscovery errors are discussed in “Discovery error scenarios and results” on page 186.