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Removing Un-used SNMP Strings

I've seen this before, but I can not find the post...

Question: How do you remove un-used SNMP community strings from the Add Node or Interface screen in the System Manager?

I want to delete the "public" string as well as some others that have typos in them....

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vhcato

John, I believe these are held in the "WebCommunityStrings" table in the database. Have you tried to blow them away here?... ~ Vic

jtimes

tried that, they are still there :-(

vhcato

Well, POO!!!

Something I noticed is that I don't see all the same comm strings in the drop-down box on all of our polling engines. In fact, one engine that currently has no assigned devices doesn't have any comm strings in the list. So, wherever it's getting them, it's not the same list for all engines.

Is it possible that it only shows the ones that are actually assigned to nodes on that polling engine, and that maybe you have some device(s) with that comm string configured? I'm grasping at straws...

FormerMember

Changing a value in the database won't work because the poller, not the database, is the "master". In many cases, if you stop the poller, change the database, and then restart the poller, the changes will stick.