[c-nsp] SNMP Community Question

[Justin M. Streiner]

On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, Mike Louis wrote:

> With management applications becoming more of the norm with things like 
> the Vframe product from Cisco, is there a way to limit from the network 
> device side, what interfaces a particular community string can access. 
> For instance, if you have a server that has RW access to a switch, can 
> you limit it by SNMP community string as to what interfaces that string 
> can control, for instance limit the server to control interfaces on 
> blade 9 only using community string x?

It's been awhile, but I don't think the granularity of control you're 
looking for is possible using plain old SNMPv1.  You might be able to do 
this with views in v2/v2c and similar controls in v3.

jms