When trying to use SNMP with JBoss specifying the community string doesn't seem to work. We tried specifying a custom community string and used snmpwalk to get the data like following and the 'public' community string always seems to get the data which we don't want.

[tmc@linux-ajmani ~]$ snmpwalk -c public -v 2c localhost:9081
SNMPv2-MIB::sysDescr.0 = STRING: Mobicents Sip Servlets
SNMPv2-MIB::sysObjectID.0 = OID: SNMPv2-SMI::enterprises.2312.100.9.1.1.6
DISMAN-EVENT-MIB::sysUpTimeInstance = Timeticks: (241606) 0:40:16.06
SNMPv2-MIB::sysContact.0 = STRING: Red Hat
SNMPv2-MIB::sysName.0 = STRING: dev@127.0.0.1
SNMPv2-MIB::sysLocation.0 = STRING: In The Matrix
SNMPv2-MIB::sysServices.0 = INTEGER: 64

[tmc@linux-ajmani ~]$ snmpwalk -c private -v 2c localhost:9081
SNMPv2-MIB::sysDescr.0 = STRING: Mobicents Sip Servlets
SNMPv2-MIB::sysObjectID.0 = OID: SNMPv2-SMI::enterprises.2312.100.9.1.1.6
DISMAN-EVENT-MIB::sysUpTimeInstance = Timeticks: (242147) 0:40:21.47
SNMPv2-MIB::sysContact.0 = STRING: Red Hat
SNMPv2-MIB::sysName.0 = STRING: dev@127.0.0.1
SNMPv2-MIB::sysLocation.0 = STRING: In The Matrix
SNMPv2-MIB::sysServices.0 = INTEGER: 64

[tmc@linux-ajmani ~]$ snmpwalk -c pHoE93eP -v 2c localhost:9081
SNMPv2-MIB::sysDescr.0 = STRING: Mobicents Sip Servlets
SNMPv2-MIB::sysObjectID.0 = OID: SNMPv2-SMI::enterprises.2312.100.9.1.1.6
DISMAN-EVENT-MIB::sysUpTimeInstance = Timeticks: (458879) 1:16:28.79
SNMPv2-MIB::sysContact.0 = STRING: Red Hat
SNMPv2-MIB::sysName.0 = STRING: dev@127.0.0.1
SNMPv2-MIB::sysLocation.0 = STRING: In The Matrix
SNMPv2-MIB::sysServices.0 = INTEGER: 64

This was already reported under JBAS (https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBAS-6059) however it was deemed out of date and not fixed. I have a customer needing to have this fixed in EAP 5.1.2.