Description: This table controls access to SNMP objects by network management stations. If the table is empty, access to SNMP objects is unrestricted. This table exists only on SNMPv1 or v2c agents and does not exist on SNMPv3 agents. See the conformance section for details. Specifically, for v3 agents, the appropriate MIBs and security models apply in lieu of this table.

This table is deprecated. Instead, use the SNMP coexistence MIBs from RFC2576, the TARGET and NOTIFICATION MIBs from the SNMP Applications RFC, and the VACM MIBs for SNMPv1 and V2C access.

If SNMP-COMMUNITY-MIB is implemented AND snmpCommunityTable is populated, then docsDevNmAccessTable and its entries are ignored for the purpose of determining v1 or v2c access. If the SNMP-COMMUNITY-MIB table has no entries, then this table has its normal access control (described above) meaning for v1 and v2c access. (Obviously, if docsDevNmAccessTable is not implemented and snmpCommunityTable is not populated, then there will be no access via SNMPv1 or v2c)

To be very specific:

IF the count of rows in SNMP-COMMUNITY-MIB|snmpCommunityTable > 0 THEN resolve access using snmpCommunityTable ELSE resolve access using docsDevNmAccessTable