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Network Administration: SNMP Monitoring
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SHA
Key — Users are authenticated using the HMAC-SHA-96
authentication level.
–
Authentication Password
— If the MD5 Key or SHA Key
authentication method was selected, enter the user-defined password
for a group.
–
Privacy Method
— If the MD5 Key or SHA Key authentication
method was selected, enable the DES privacy method or None.
–
Privacy Password
— If the DES privacy method is selected, enter the
user-defined password.
Communities
When using SNMP v1,2, communities strings (passwords) are used to provide
access rights in the following ways:
•
Basic Table
— The access rights of a community can be read-only, read-
write, or SNMP Admin. In addition, you can restrict access to the
community to only certain MIB objects using a
view
. Views are defined in
the
Views Setting
pages.
•
Advanced Table
— Access rights to a community are assigned to a group
that consists of users. A group can have Read, Write, and Notify access to
views. Groups are defined in the
Access Control
pages.
To define an SNMP community:
1
Click
Switch Management >
SNMP Monitoring
>
Communities
.
The Basic and Advanced tables are displayed.
2
To add a new community, click
Edit, Add
.
3
Define the SNMP management station by entering its IP address
information:
–
Supported IP Format
— Select whether the IPv4 or IPv6 format is
being used.
–
IPv6 Address Type
— When the community supports IPv6, this
specifies the type of static address supported. The possible options are:
•
Link Local
— A Link Local address that is non-routable and used
for communication on the same network only.
