Reference Guide
• v1v2creadu — maps to a community with ro permissions.
• 1v2cwriteu — maps to a community rw permissions.
remote 
ip-
address
Enter the keywords udp-port then the user datagram protocol 
(UDP) port number on the remote device. The range is from 0 to 65535. 
The default is 162.
udp-port 
port-
number
Enter the keywords udp-port then the UDP (User Datagram 
Protocol) port number on the remote device. The range is from 0 to 
65535. The default is 
162.
1 | 2c | 3 (OPTIONAL) Enter the security model version number (1, 2c, or 3):
• 1 is the least secure version.
• 3 is the most secure of the security modes.
• 2c allows transmission of informs and counter 64, which 
allows for integers twice the width of what is normally 
allowed.
The default is 1.
encrypted (OPTIONAL) Enter the keyword encrypted to specify the password 
appear in encrypted format (a series of digits, masking the true 
characters of the string).
auth (OPTIONAL) Enter the keyword auth to specify authentication of a 
packet without encryption.
md5 | sha (OPTIONAL) Enter the keyword md5 or sha to designate the 
authentication level.
• md5 — Message Digest Algorithm
• sha — Secure Hash Algorithm
auth-password
(OPTIONAL) Enter a text string (up to 20 characters long) password 
that enables the agent to receive packets from the host. Minimum: 
eight characters long.
priv des56 (OPTIONAL) Enter the keywords priv des56 to initiate a privacy 
authentication level setting using the CBC-DES privacy authentication 
algorithm (des56).
priv password
(OPTIONAL) Enter a text string (up to 20 characters long) password 
that enables the host to encrypt the contents of the message it sends 
to the agent. Minimum: eight characters long.
access 
access-
list-name
(Optional) Enter the standard IPv4 access list name (a string up to 16 
characters long).
ipv6 
access-list-
name
(Optional) Enter the keyword ipv6 then the IPv6 access list name (a 
string up to 16 characters long).
access-list-name 
ipv6
access-list-
name
(Optional) Enter both an IPv4 and IPv6 access list name.
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