SNMP Traps

[kartik.shah1]

Hi,

Can anyone help me with SNMP Traps? What does snmp community Public & Private means??

What does Snmp community public ro & rw means?

I am bit confused about this.

Thankyou

[Joseph W. Doherty]

Your questions might be better addressed on the Cisco learning forums.

But in short, public SNMP generally means SNMP that's not restricted, i.e. anyone can use SNMP against the device.  Private SNMP generally means SNMP that requires additional validation for SNMP access, like a private password.

Public RO (read-only) and public RW (read-write) determines kind of SNMP access permitted.  Generally public might be permitted RO but RW is usually only granted to private.

[vivek srivastava]

Joseph already given a summary ans.

But to avoid any security issue, use your own alias for snmp communities, especially for RW. It can act like privilege 15 password to your device if in wrong hands  ;-)