Cisco Management Switch - How To Check SNMP Community String?

Following are steps to verify SNMP Community string being set on the Cisco Management switch.
 
1. Login to the Cisco Management Switch as "admin" user. You will be logged into telnet prompt ">"

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2. Enter into "Enable" mode by running below "enable" command to run the Cisco Management switch related commands. 


enable

 

3. Now run below command to list the SNMP community strings.

show running-config

 

As an example below is sample output. 


 

snmp-server community public RO  
        
snmp-server community private RW     

 

In this sample output, "public" is the read-only community string and "private" is the read-write community string.   

Above steps will list the SNMP Community strings for Cisco Management Switch.

Once you are done with getting the SNMP community string information, logout of "Enable" mode of Cisco Management switch by running below "disable" command. You will return back to to main Cisco Switch telnet prompt ">". You can then run "exit" command to log out of the Cisco Switch. 

Products to which Article Applies

Cisco Switches

 

Article Author: Tarun Boyella