SMC Networks SMC6824M Specifying a Remote Engine ID, CLI This example sets an SNMPv3 engine ID

CONFIGURING THE SWITCH

Web – Click SNMP, SNMPv3, Engine ID. Enter an ID of up to 26 hexadecimal characters and then click Save.

Figure 3-25 Setting an Engine ID

CLI – This example sets an SNMPv3 engine ID.

Console(config)#snmp-server engine-id local 12345abcdef	4-160
Console(config)#exit	4-161
Console#show snmp engine-id
Local SNMP engineID: 12345abcdef000000000000000
Local SNMP engineBoots: 1
Console#

Specifying a Remote Engine ID

To send inform messages to an SNMPv3 user on a remote device, you must first specify the engine identifier for the SNMP agent on the remote device where the user resides. The remote engine ID is used to compute the security digest for authenticating and encrypting packets sent to a user on the remote host.

SNMP passwords are localized using the engine ID of the authoritative agent. For informs, the authoritative SNMP agent is the remote agent. You therefore need to configure the remote agent’s SNMP engine ID before you can send proxy requests or informs to it. (See “Specifying Trap Managers and Trap Types” on page 3-50and “Configuring Remote SNMPv3 Users” on page 3-58.)

The engine ID can be specified by entering 1 to 26 hexadecimal characters. If less than 26 characters are specified, trailing zeroes are added to the value. For example, the value “1234” is equivalent to “1234” followed by 22 zeroes.

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