RE: Problem with community name and symbols

Might try escaping the $ with a backslash: smarta\$\$

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Gregory Young [mailto:[email protected]]
>Sent: Thursday, July 02, 2009 2:19 PM
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: Problem with community name and symbols
>
>Versions:
>       Windows: 5.4.2.1
>       SUSE 11 i586 and x64: 5.4.1-77.6
>
>
>       The issue I am coming across is that I am trying to setup Nagios
to monitor a large network of
>devices that are on the on the public internet. Due to the open nature
of these devices, we have
>setup community names on them that include the '$' symbol. These
devices are all running on top of a
>hardened, stripped down version of Linux and our current windows based
monitoring software has no
>problems reading the SNMP info using these community names (I am
looking to replace the current
>software as it is not scalable and we have exceeded its capacity).
>
>	So the big issue is as follows. On a Windows based system, using
net-snmp 5.4.2.1 I have no
>problems querying a device and getting the info I request. On Suse 11 I
get no response from the
>device. Running the command with the debug option, I can see the
community name that is being passed
>is incorrect. If I enter 'smarta$$' as my community name, net-snmp
sends it to the device as
>'smarta12212'.
>
>	With over 2,000 devices being monitored, changing the community
names is not an option (yes
>both the RO and RW community names have a '$' in them). Does anyone
know how to tell net-snmp, and
>more specifically snmpget how to properly pass these characters to the
remote device?
>
>	As reference, the command I am using is:
>			Snmpget -v 2c -c smarta$$ -d X.X.X.X
.1.3.6.1.4.1.8744.5.6.1.1.7.0
>
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>
>Gregory Young
>
>
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