SNMP Community

An SNMP community is a grouping of network devices and management stations used to define where information is sent and accepted. An SNMP device or agent might belong to more than one SNMP community. SNMP communities provide a type of password protection for viewing and setting management information within a community.

SNMP communities also include access level settings. They are used to define the access rights associated with a specific SNMP community. The Oracle® Enterprise Session Border Controller lets you define one access level: read-only. SNMP community names may be no more than 32 characters and not contain "". You can define multiple SNMP communities on a Oracle® Enterprise Session Border Controller to segregate access modes per community and NMS host.

The members of an SNMP Community may be configured by IPv4, IPv6, or a combination of both in the snmp-community > ip-address parameter.