Nortel Networks 40M2420 manual Cfg/sys/ssnmp/snmpv3, SNMPv3 Configuration

Alteon OS Command Reference

/cfg/sys/ssnmp/snmpv3

SNMPv3 Configuration

SNMP version 3 (SNMPv3) is an extensible SNMP Framework that supplements the SNMPv2 Framework by supporting the following:

„a new SNMP message format

„security for messages

„access control

„remote configuration of SNMP parameters

For more details on the SNMPv3 architecture please refer to RFC2271 to RFC2276.

[SNMPv3 Menu]	- usmUser Table menu
usm
view	- vacmViewTreeFamily Table menu
access	- vacmAccess Table menu
group	- vacmSecurityToGroup Table menu
comm	- community Table menu
taddr	- targetAddr Table menu
tparam	- targetParams Table menu
notify	- notify Table menu
v1v2	- Enable/disable V1/V2 access
cur	- Display current SNMPv3 configuration

Table 6-10SNMPv3 Configuration Menu Options (/cfg/sys/ssnmp/snmpv3)

Command Syntax and Usage

usm <usmUser number [1-16]>

This command allows you to create a user security model (USM) entry for an authorized user. You can also configure this entry through SNMP. To view menu options, see page 192.

view <vacmViewTreeFamily number [1-128]>

This command allows you to create different MIB views. To view menu options, see page 193.

access <vacmAccess number [1-32]>

This command allows you to specify access rights. The View-based Access Control Model defines a set of services that an application can use for checking access rights of the user. You need access control when you have to process retrieval or modification request from an SNMP entity. To view menu options, see page 194.

group <vacmSecurityToGroup number [1-16]>

A group maps the user name to the access group names and their access rights needed to access SNMP management objects. A group defines the access rights assigned to all names that belong to a particular group. To view menu options, see page 196.

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