Reference Guide
Simple Network Management Protocol and Syslog | 1425
Parameters
Defaults
As above
Command Modes
CONFIGURATION
name
Enter the name of the user (not to exceed 20 characters), on the host, that 
connects to the agent.
group_name
Enter a text string (up to 20 characters long) as the name of the group. 
Defaults: The following groups are created for mapping to read/write 
community/security-names.
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v1v2creadu — maps to a community with ro (read only) 
permissions
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1v2cwriteu — maps to a community rw (read/write) permissions
remote ip-address
Enter the keyword remote followed by the IP address that identifies the 
copy of the SNMP on the remote device. 
udp-port port-number
Enter the keyword udp-port followed by the UDP (User Datagram 
Protocol) port number on the remote device. 
Range: 0 to 65535.
Default: 162 
1 | 2c | 3 
(OPTIONAL) Enter the security model version number (1, 2c, or 3). 
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1 is the least secure version
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2c allows transmission of informs and counter 64, which allows for 
integers twice the width of what is normally allowed.
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3 is the most secure of the security modes. 
Default: 
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 
will enable the agent to receive packets from the host.
Minimum: 8 characters long
priv des56
(OPTIONAL) Enter the keyword 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 
will enables the host to encrypt the contents of the message it sends to the 
agent.
Minimum: 8 characters long
access 
access-list-name
(Optional) Enter the keyword access followed by the standard IPv4 
access list name (a string up to 16 characters long).
ipv6 access-list-name
(Optional) Enter the keyword ipv6 followed by 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.










