James Shanks wrote:

> I'm afraid not.  One community string per box is all you get.
>
> James Shanks
> Level 3 Support
> Tivoli NetView for UNIX and NT
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>
> dil AT acn DOT gr (Leventidis Dimitris)@tkg.com on 09/10/2001 05:27:30 AM
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> Subject:  [NV-L] Object that has multiple community names on the same IP
>
> Hello,
>
> i'have a problem with a netview 6.01 on an AIX 4.3.3 system. I have a
> device on my network that has only 1 IP Address, but reports different
> things every time you specify another community name. With the default
> community e.g. public i'm getting the ethernet statistics. If i use e.g.
> public@s1 i'm getting different things which are related with the first
> slot's connected devices (e.g. some wan interfaces).
>
> How can i modify this object and assign to it 2 (or more) community
> names?
> I've seen Sunnet Manager to do this and i was impressed....can Netview
> do this?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Dimitris Leventidis
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If you don't know already, this is called Community string Indexing and is
used to access MIBS that have multiple instances for a single MIB value.
Some switch  vendors use this to get stats for all the bridge interfaces on
a switch by just adding the @ sign followed by the port or VLAN number to
the single community name assigned to the entire device.  IE..     public@25
would read the bridge mib for VLAN25 or it could be a single port on a board
IE..  public@3/1      for board 3 port 1.    If the device does not have
multiple instances of a MIB,  adding the @ does nothing and it will still
access the single instance of that MIB.    Also note that a trap sent from a
multiple instance MIB should have the source attached as the instance with
the @ sign.

This is a very powerful feature to use if your device supports it.


So with a little scripting you could do what ever you want.


Jeff Fitzwater
OIT Systems & Networking