Nortel Networks 40M2420 manual Info/sys/snmpv3/usm, SNMPv3 USM User Table Information

Alteon OS Command Reference

/info/sys/snmpv3/usm

SNMPv3 USM User Table Information

The User-based Security Model (USM) in SNMPv3 provides security services such as authen- tication and privacy of messages. This security model makes use of a defined set of user iden- tities displayed in the USM user table. The USM user table contains the following information:

„the user name

„a security name in the form of a string whose format is independent of the Security Model

„an authentication protocol, which is an indication that the messages sent on behalf of the user can be authenticated

„the privacy protocol

usmUser Table:	Protocol
User Name
--------------------------------	--------------------------------
adminmd5	HMAC_MD5,	DES PRIVACY
adminsha	HMAC_SHA,	DES PRIVACY
v1v2only	NO AUTH,	NO PRIVACY

Table 4-4	USM User Table Information Parameters (/info/sys/usm)
Field	Description
User Name	This is a string that represents the name of the user that you can
	use to access the switch.
Protocol	This indicates whether messages sent on behalf of this user are
	protected from disclosure using a privacy protocol. Alteon OS
	21.0 supports DES algorithm for privacy. The software also sup-
	ports two authentication algorithms: MD5 and HMAC-SHA.

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