This is working fine for me. There is an option to say whether to use the
alternates only on initial discovery. Perhaps your devices were discovered
once as non-snmp nodes before you added the names? You could change
the setting (on Discovery, I think) to use it all the time for a while (it
takes more
overhead), and demand-poll some of the nodes. Or delete them and
rediscover them. When I had to add a new community string to the file after
some nodes were discovered as non-snmp, I only had to demand-poll them
and then they changed into routers. I believe mine is set to only use it on
initial discovery.

Cordially,

Leslie A. Clark
IBM Global Services - Systems Mgmt & Networking
Detroit


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Hi
I have five read community names for all routers in my network. I entered
the community names in the file communitynames.conf.
But the routers haven't been discovered at all.
I must write down my community names for each router by means of SNMP
option
to make NetView  discover my routes properly.
I would greatly appretiate if somebody tell me how to make use of the file
communitynames.conf properly for discovery process.
Many thanks
Josef Hlaves
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