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Multiple Community Strings or Authentication Profiles

Plan the community strings and authentication profiles to be tried for each area of your network. For the default and region settings, you can configure multiple community strings and authentication profiles to be tried in parallel.

Note While trying probable community strings, NNMi queries might cause devices to generate authentication failures. Inform your operations department that authentication failures might safely be ignored while NNMi completes its initial discovery. Alternatively, you can minimize the number of authentication failures by configuring your regions (and the associated community strings and authentication protocols to try) as tightly as possible.

If your environment uses SNMPv1 or v2c and SNMPv3, determine the minimum acceptable security level for each region.