The password (community name) that you want the WebLogic SNMP
agent to use to secure communication with SNMP managers.
Note that there are two community names that are needed when the
WebLogic SNMP agent and SNMP managers interact:
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The name that you specify in this community prefix. All SNMP
managers must send this name when connecting to the WebLogic SNMP
agent.
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The community name that the SNMP manager defines. The WebLogic
SNMP agent must send this name when connecting to the manager. (You
supply this community name when you configure a trap
destination.)
In addition to using the community prefix as a password, the
WebLogic SNMP agent uses the prefix to qualify requests from SNMP
managers. Because a WebLogic Server domain can have multiple server
instances concurrently active, a request that specifies only an
attribute name is potentially ambiguous. For example, the attribute
serverUptime exists for each WebLogic Server instance
in a domain. To clarify requests, use the community prefix as
follows:
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To request the value of an attribute on a specific Managed
Server, when you send a request from an SNMP manager, append the
name of the server instance to the community prefix:
community_prefix@server_name.
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To request the value of an attribute on the Administration
Server, send a community name with the following form:
community_prefix
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To request the value of an attribute for all server instances in
a domain, send a community name with the following form:
community_prefix@domain_name
To secure access to the values of the WebLogic attributes, it is
recommended that you set community prefix to a value other than
public.
Default: "public"
Secure Value: true