change community_rw to be array ref

Netdisco/bin/netdisco-daemon

@@ -18,15 +18,8 @@ newdaemon(
   logpriority => 'daemon.info',
 );
 
-sub gd_preconfig {
+# do not remove - must be redefined
-  my $self = shift;
+sub gd_preconfig { return () }
-
-  # FIXME: only for Actions should this be checked
-  $self->gd_error("No read-write community string has been set.")
-    unless length setting('community_rw');
-
-  return (); # important
-}
 
 sub gd_run_body {
   my $self = shift;
@@ -48,7 +41,11 @@ sub gd_run_body {
       next unless $self->lock_job($job);
 
       # do job
-      my ($status, $log) = $self->$target($job);
+      my ($status, $log);
+      try {
+          ($status, $log) = $self->$target($job);
+      }
+      catch {  warn "error running job: $_\n" };
 
       # revert to queued status if we failed to action the job
       if (not $status) {

Netdisco/lib/Netdisco/Daemon/Actions/Device.pm

@@ -39,11 +39,8 @@ sub _set_device_generic {
       return error("Verify of $slot update failed on [$ip]: $new_data");
   }
 
-  # get device details from db
-  my $device = get_device($ip)
-    or return error("Updated $slot on [$ip] to [$data] but failed to update DB");
-
   # update netdisco DB
+  my $device = get_device($ip);
   $device->update({$slot => $data});
 
   return done("Updated $slot on [$ip] to [$data]");

Netdisco/lib/Netdisco/Daemon/Actions/Port.pm

@@ -40,12 +40,8 @@ sub portcontrol {
       return error("Verify of [$pn] port status failed on [$ip]: $state");
   }
 
-  # get device details from db
-  my $device = $port->device
-    or return error("Updated [$pn] port status on [$ip] but failed to update DB");
-
   # update netdisco DB
-  $device->update({up_admin => $state});
+  $port->device->update({up_admin => $state});
 
   return done("Updated [$pn] port status on [$ip] to [$state]");
 }

Netdisco/lib/Netdisco/Util/Connect.pm

@@ -107,11 +107,8 @@ sub snmp_connect {
     Debug => ($ENV{INFO_TRACE} || 0),
   );
 
-  (my $comm = setting('community_rw')) =~ s/\s+//g;
-  my @communities = split /,/, $comm;
-
   my $info = undef;
-  COMMUNITY: foreach my $c (@communities) {
+  COMMUNITY: foreach my $c (@{ setting('community_rw') || []}) {
       try {
           $info = SNMP::Info->new(%snmp_args, Community => $c);
           last COMMUNITY if (