SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability – Network Monitoring — Question 17

A network discovery profile for a network area completes with most devices discovered, except for a few SNMP enabled network devices. These undiscovered devices are verified to be operational and respond to SNMP queries.
What could be the cause?

Answer options

• A. device MIB is not in SolarWinds’ MIB database
• B. discovery timeout value is set too low
• C. no SNMP pollers match the device
• D. SNMP community strings in profile are invalid

Correct answer: D

Explanation

The correct answer is D because if the SNMP community strings configured in the discovery profile are incorrect, the devices will not be accessible for discovery, even if they are operational. Options A, B, and C may contribute to issues but would not necessarily prevent the devices from being discovered if they respond to SNMP queries.