Brocade Network Advisor SAN User Manual v11.1x (53-1002167-01, May 2011)

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FIGURE 376 Event Reception dialog box - Trap Credentials dialog box
The Management application can receive SNMP v1 traps from Brocade SAN switches and directors
that have any SNMP community strings. It can receive SNMP v3 traps and informs from these SAN
products.
The Table 49 explains the combinations of security and authentication, which will help you when
you make your SNMP credentials configuration decisions.
TABLE 49 SNMP security and authentication
SNMP credential
type
Privacy protocol Authentication Result
v1 No authentication
No privacy protocol
Community string Uses a community string to match
for authentication.
v2c No authentication
No privacy protocol
Community string Uses a community string to match
for authentication.
v3 No authentication
No privacy protocol
User name Uses a user name to match for
authentication.
v3 Authentication
No privacy protocol
MD5
1
or SHA
2
Provides authentication based on
the HMAC-MD5
3
or HMAC-SHA
algorithms.