Scan options - SNMP community settings

In order to read back information from the devices, the SNMP protocol must be enabled (Simple Network Management Protocol).

By default, the used community name is just public because the Access Type read-only is sufficient. Especially larger companies use for security reasons their own SNMP community name[s].

In order to find out if a special community name is set, login as admin to the device WEB interface, select the configuration and there in the option Network the SNMP link:

Note: Currently only IPv4 is supported.

You may define several community names in a project. IBS CC will try to use all provided names to get access to the devices. In order to limit search time, it is recommended to prioritize the entered names, using the UP and DOWN buttons.
Note: Each additional name will double, triple etc. the needed scan time.

The process to setup a new community setting within IBS CC is the following:

Project	New	In the first step it is required to generate a new project. IBS CC can handle nearly as many projects as needed. Within a company usually only one project is needed, but if for example IBS CC is installed on a supporter notebook, he may want to define and keep for each client the proper settings. Type in any name, blanks and special characters are allowed. After that the project and with the default community name "public" and "admin" are generated.
	Delete	To delete any existing project, select its name in the project tree.
Community	Add name	Add any new community name to the existing list.
	Change name	Select a community name within a project and change its name.
	Delete name	Select a community name within a project and delete it
	Up	The more in front the community name is in the project list, the name should be more often used in the devices. This helps to limit the needed network scan time.
	Down	Give the name a lower priority

Options to save/cancel the changes which were made in the Manage SNMP community settings dialog:

OK	All changes are saved and the community names of the selected project are set for scanning. The SNMP community window is closed and you may start in the Scan tab the next scan.
Save	Save the projects and their community names.
Cancel	Leave the window without saving any changes and nothing is applied in the Scan tab.