take a look at netmon's man page:

----------------
.....
  -h   Specify this option to use alternate community strings during all
       polls.

  When the default name public fails, netmon will automatically try the
com-
  munity strings defined in the /usr/OV/conf/communityNames.conf file under
  the following circumstances:

         + Initial discovery for all nodes

         + Configuration polling and New Node Discovery polling of routers
         only

         + Demand polling for any node

  When a string is found that works, it will be stored for future use in
the
  ovsnmp.conf database.

  This option should be used judiciously because it will slow down polling
  noticeably due to timeouts for non-SNMP nodes. Ideally, you would want to
  use this option when a large number of community strings have been
changed.
  It is intended to be used during a full configuration cycle (which is
usu-
  ally 24 hours), and then turned off again.
......
----------------

Kind regards

Oliver Bruchhaeuser
Tivoli NetView EMEA L2 Support

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55131 Mainz - Germany
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Hi All,
         We are currently changing all the snmp community names in our
network devices. How do I remove all the old names in netview and force
netview to learn the new ones. I currently have the new names in the
communityName.conf file.

Thanks in advance

6.02
AIX 4.3.3


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