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Old 19th September 2011
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replace your community strings, for now, with this-

read-only community public


This will ensure-

- that your host cannot be configured remotely via SNMP (you are trying to specify that it's read-write capable, so it can receive commands via SNMP.)

- that most common applications being used with their "out-of-box" configurations against this host's SNMP service will make contact with it (because the community string is "public" (without the quotes))

Now this should only be used for testing, to see if you can get past this section. When you are confident that's working, change the community string to something other than "public". The reason is that "public" is considered the default string in the industry, and that's what bad people will attempt when surveilling your system.

Also, unless you have a really specific need for SNMP write capabilities, I would never use it.

Good luck.
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