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Unknown Community Name for SNMP on CISCO Catalyst 3560

I have two Catalyst 3560 switches. I am using LANSurveyor to map the network and am not retrieving port info. I did when I first setup LANSurveyor, but it stopped after configuring the second switch. Both switches are on VLAN1 and both have an SNMP Comminity String of "Public". Both are on the 255.255.255.0 subnet, using 192.168.1.1 as the gateway and both have unique IP's on the network. The devices show up in LANSurvey as boxes with an IP and that's it.

After telnetting into one of the switches, I noticed that showing SNMP configuration returns "unknown community name". Other than that I see no problems in the setup.

Any ideas on what I should look at next would be greatly appreciated.

Aaron Street

i would go in to the conf t interface of the switch
and type

>snmp-server comunity public ro

assuming that the community name that lansuvery is set up to use
not sure why it has that error but that should fix it

Aaron Street

oh you may need to use ? to check i spelt it all correctly

WVCA

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Still coming back as unknown community name. I wonder if me changeing the host name to Catalyst3560_48 had any affect on it. I can't imagine how it would though. I just installed CISCO's Network Assistant software and am looking through the various configuration screens there too.

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WVCA

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I'm not sure on the checking whether it is or isn't setup on VLAN1. It does show snmp agent as enabled??? A little new to this one. Will try turning off and setting up again. Is the community string case sensitive?

WVCA

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It must be...that worked. Thanks Devil.

Aaron Street

glad to help :)