Cisco Works 2000 & Proper SNMP Community Strings

brianprice · ‎01-27-2003

I have been told Cisco Works 2000 does not accept SNMP Community Strings with special characters such as *, &, @, !. I can't find documents to support or disclaim this.

Is this true with anyone elses Cisco Works 2000 server when doing discoveries? Does anyone have a link to information regarding "valid community strings"?

Thanks so much!

sbanyas · ‎01-27-2003

All I have conjured up are various references to the following quote:

"special UNICODE characters above the ASCII range cannot be used".

milan.kulik · ‎01-28-2003

Hi,

the documentation declares "any printable character" can be used but I've personally noticed a problem with tilda (~) character.

Regards,

Milan

makkers · ‎01-28-2003

we've used * sucessfully but failed with @.

brianprice · ‎01-28-2003

It's my understand that it depends on the snmp version being used 3, 4, 5....

In earlier versions most characters will not be recognized but more recent version more are recognized. I have tested via snmp3 which can not recognize devices with strings including the characters I mentioned above. I did not test the tilda (~) though. Thanks for the responses!