Chapter 33 Configuring SNMP

Configuring SNMP

Default SNMP Configuration

Table 33-4shows the default SNMP configuration.

Table 33-4

Default SNMP Configuration

 

 

 

Feature

 

Default Setting

 

 

 

SNMP agent

 

Disabled1.

SNMP trap receiver

None configured.

 

 

 

SNMP traps

 

None enabled except the trap for TCP connections (tty).

 

 

 

SNMP version

 

If no version keyword is present, the default is Version 1.

 

 

SNMPv3 authentication

If no keyword is entered, the default is the noauth (noAuthNoPriv)

 

 

security level.

 

 

SNMP notification type

If no type is specified, all notifications are sent.

 

 

 

1.This is the default when the switch starts and the startup configuration does not have any snmp-serverglobal configuration commands.

SNMP Configuration Guidelines

If the switch starts and the witch startup configuration has at least one snmp-serverglobal configuration command, the SNMP agent is enabled.

An SNMP group is a table that maps SNMP users to SNMP views. An SNMP user is a member of an SNMP group. An SNMP host is the recipient of an SNMP trap operation. An SNMP engine ID is a name for the local or remote SNMP engine.

When configuring SNMP, follow these guidelines:

When configuring an SNMP group, do not specify a notify view. The snmp-server host global configuration command autogenerates a notify view for the user and then adds it to the group associated with that user. Modifying the group's notify view affects all users associated with that group. See the Cisco IOS Configuration Fundamentals Command Reference, Release 12.2 for information about when you should configure notify views.

To configure a remote user, specify the IP address or port number for the remote SNMP agent of the device where the user resides.

Before you configure remote users for a particular agent, configure the SNMP engine ID, using the snmp-server engineID global configuration with the remote option. The remote agent's SNMP engine ID and user password are used to compute the authentication and privacy digests. If you do not configure the remote engine ID first, the configuration command fails.

When configuring SNMP informs, you need to configure the SNMP engine ID for the remote agent in the SNMP database before you can send proxy requests or informs to it.

If a local user is not associated with a remote host, the switch does not send informs for the auth (authNoPriv) and the priv (authPriv) authentication levels.

Changing the value of the SNMP engine ID has important side effects. A user's password (entered on the command line) is converted to an MD5 or SHA security digest based on the password and the local engine ID. The command-line password is then destroyed, as required by RFC 2274. Because of this deletion, if the value of the engine ID changes, the security digests of SNMPv3 users become

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