Chapter 4      Managing Devices

Device Management

Variable

Description

Notes

retries

The number of times the  By default, the Hosting Solution 

Hosting Solution 

Engine makes only one retry. If 

Engine attempts to 

you increase the number of 

communicate with the 

retries, discovery takes 

device before declaring  significantly longer to complete. 

that the device has 

The default retry policy doubles 

timed out.

the previous timeout value for 

retry. 

write_community

The password to allow 

You must specify the write 

This value is 

write access to the 

community string. (The default 

required.

devices.

value of public is used.)

For additional information, see 

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.

Step 2

If individual devices are configured with different community strings, enter new 

lines for each device.

Step 3

Click Save to apply the changes.

Community String Guidelines

Use these guidelines to modify the community strings.

You can assign community strings to any of the following:

  Complete IP address 172.20.4.9

  Any wild cards, but wild cards must be based on IP addresses:

*.*.*.*

172.*.*.*

  Range of address including wild cards:

172.20.[4 55].*

172.[21 20].[44 88].*

172.*.*.[121 255]

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