How to find existing SNMP Community string from a CI

[Imran Akram]

I am looking to find out how you can find the SNMP Community string from an existing CI record in CMDB.

I have an existing IP Switch for example but having trouble finding the SNMP community string which has been added.

[Rahul Priyadars · Accepted solution]

See password and SNMP strings are stored but as encrypted . So you can not read it from Credential Table . 

You need to store it Locally in string for ur future reference . 

Regards

RP

[Rahul Priyadars]

are u looking for exact String of SNMP .

Which SNMP is used you can find from this table record- IP Affinity - dscy_credentials_affinity

Regards

RP

[Imran Akram]

Hi Rahul, 

I have the IP address, Credential ID and which credential is relates to in the Credential table.
But issue i have is i cant see what the string is: 

same as your screenshot i can see the MID server, Credential ID, IP Address etc.

I have tried searching via Credential ID within the credential table and doesnt bring any results.

[Rahul Priyadars · Accepted solution]

See password and SNMP strings are stored but as encrypted . So you can not read it from Credential Table . 

You need to store it Locally in string for ur future reference . 

Regards

RP

[Prabu Velayutha]

Hi @Imran Akram 

You can retrieve the credentials using this Script and run it in the background script to decrypt the encrypted password. This will be handy incase you have not saved the password locally. As admin you can run this background script and retrieve the encrypted password. Best practice is to store the credentials in vault like cyberArc.

var gr = new GlideRecord('discovery_credentials');
gr.addQuery('name','mention name');
gr.query();
if(gr.next()){
var Encrypter = new GlideEncrypter();
var decrypted = Encrypter.decrypt(gr.password);
gs.print(decrypted);
}