Management and Configuration Guide K/KA/KB.15.15
6 Configuring for Network Management Applications
Enabling SNMPv3
The snmpv3 enable command allows the switch to:
• Receive SNMPv3 messages.
• Configure initial users.
• Restrict non-version 3 messages to "read only" (optional.)
CAUTION: Restricting access to only version 3 messages makes the community named "public"
inaccessible to network management applications (such as autodiscovery, traffic monitoring, SNMP
trap generation, and threshold setting) from operating in the switch.
Example
Example 87 SNMP version 3 enable command
Configuring users in SNMPv3
Syntax
[no] snmpv3 user <user_name>
[auth md5|sha]auth_pass
[ priv des | aes <priv_pass>
Adds or deletes a user entry for SNMPv3. Authorization and privacy are optional, but to use
privacy, you must use authorization. When you delete a user, only the user_name is required.
With authorization, you can set either MD5 or SHA authentication. The authentication password
auth_pass must be 6 to 32 characters and is mandatory when you configure authentication.
(Default: None)
With privacy, the switch supports DES (56-bit) and AES (128-bit) encryption. The privacy password
priv_pass must be 6 to 32 characters and is mandatory when you configure privacy.
(Default: DES)
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