Nortel Alteon OS, Command Reference Manual

Page: 61 / 382

Alteon OS Command Reference
Chapter 4: The Information Menu
„
61 40M2420, April 2007
/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:
User Name Protocol
-------------------------------- --------------------------------
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.