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SNMP Community String and Solar Winds

I have downloaded an installed an evalution version of Solar Winds. In the Network Performance Monitor module, i have opted to add a node. I have added the IP address of my server and it is asking me for a SNMP community string.

Can anybody tell me what this is and how I find out what value I need to enter in there? Basically, I want to use solar winds to monitor the network traffic for all the workstations and servers on our network.

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Andy

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Easy7

What kind of server are you running?

RPPreacher

This might help too, if you don't have SNMP installed on the workstations yet.

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/sag_snmptopnode.mspx?mfr=true

metamatic

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I have made a little progress....

On a couple of XP workstations I have gone to Add windows components / management and monitoring tools and added Simple Network Management Protocol and WMI SNMP provider.

When i go to add an interface in solar winds I can set the SNMP community string as "public" and it finds my workstations.

BUT.....

When i do the same for one of my servers (2003 server standard, SP1) it will not connect.

Anybody got any ideas why the server is different??

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