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But why would it need a password if it’s polled or dropping it’s temp read to a central monitor? Sometimes these hosts have way too many “features” for no thought out reason.

I worked at a security company and one guy called the SNMP community string its “password,” and it pissed me off. I just had to bite my tongue. They also stored a backup password in the Windows global environment, which also pissed me off.

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But why would it need a password if it’s polled or dropping it’s temp read to a central monitor? Sometimes these hosts have way too many “features” for no thought out reason.