community read cipher

Function

The community read cipher command configures the community name for SNMP test.

The undo community command deletes the community name of SNMP test.

By default, the community name for SNMP test is public.

Format

community read cipher community-name

undo community

Parameters

Parameter	Description	Value
community-name	Specifies the community name for SNMP test.	The value is a string of case-sensitive characters without command line characters such as spaces and question marks. The length ranges from 1 to 32 for plain text and ranges from 32 to 68 for cipher text. NOTE: When quotation marks are used around the string, spaces are allowed in the string.

Views

NQA view

Default Level

2: Configuration level

Usage Guidelines

Usage Scenario

A community, uniquely identified by a community name, defines administrative relationships between NMSs and SNMP agents. The community name acts like a password to regulate access to an SNMP agent. An NMS can access an SNMP agent only if the community name carried in the SNMP request sent by the NMS is the same as the community name configured on the SNMP agent.

When the SNMP versions on agents are SNMPv1 or SNMPv2c, the community name must be configured using the community read cipher command, and the community name must be a read-only community name on SNMP agents. When the SNMP versions on agents are SNMPv3, the community name does not need to be configured because SNMPv3 does not support community names.

Prerequisites

The NQA test instance has been configured using the nqa command, and the test instance type has been set to SNMP using the test-type command.

Example

# Set the community name for SNMP test.

<HUAWEI> system-view 
[HUAWEI] nqa test-instance user test1
[HUAWEI-nqa-user-test1] test-type snmp
[HUAWEI-nqa-user-test1] community read cipher Huawei-123