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SNMP Communities

You can grant access to only specific SNMP managers for particular SNMP agents by creating SNMP communities. The community is assigned a name that is unique on the host. All SNMP requests that are sent to the agent must be configured with the same community name. When multiple agents are configured on a particular host, the community name process ensures that SNMP requests are sorted to only those agents configured to handle the requests.

Additionally, communities allow you to specify one or more addresses or address prefixes to which you want to either allow or deny access. By specifying a list of clients, you can control exactly which SNMP managers have access to a particular agent.

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