Nexus snmp community

[egeorgopoulos]

I am using cisco Nexus5548 and trying to enter a snmp community, but it doesn't accept it. It shows:

NEXUS# snmp-server community <name> ro

Error : Not a valid Community Name

I enter a community name that is less than 32 characters, with symbols, numbers and letters. Any clues?

thank you.

[darren.g]

egeorgopoulos wrote:
I am using cisco Nexus5548 and trying to enter a snmp community, but it doesn't accept it. It shows:
NEXUS# snmp-server community  ro 
Error : Not a valid Community Name
I enter a community name that is less than 32 characters, with symbols, numbers and letters. Any clues?
thank you.

Are you actually in configuration mode (issued the "configure terminal" command) when you issue this command?

If this is a direct cut and paste from your screen, the prompt would indicate that you're not - to enter this command, you need to be at the

NEXUS(config)#

prompt.

Cheers.

[nkarpysh · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Make sure you are not using @ sign.

When doing a snmp V2 get, one can append "@" to community String. Anything after @ is considered a context. Thus, @ is not allowed in the community string.

Nik