What is the impact of having multiple community strings on the speed of discovery?
Discovery uses community strings to determine whether or not the device supports SNMP. For each community string, discovery waits for the SNMP timeout to determine if the device supports that community. It then tries with another community string name. If you have specified three communities string names and the SNMP timeout is set for 5000 milliseconds, it is going to take 15000 milliseconds to ascertain that this device does not support SNMP. If you have one community string and the SNMP timeout is 5000 milliseconds, it will take 5000 milliseconds to ascertain that the device does not support SNMP. The more community strings you have configured in the Y2K Compliance Assessment Tool, the longer it may take discovery to finish its process.
