SNMP Agents field descriptions

Field Name Description
IP Addresses for SNMP Access Select one of the following options:
  • No Access: Restrict all IP addresses from talking to the SNMP agent.

  • Any IP address: Allow all IP addresses to access the SNMP agent.

  • Following IP addresses: You can specify up to five IP addresses that have permission to access the SNMP agent.

SNMP Version 1: Community Name (read-only) Enter a community name and select enabled or disabled from the drop-down list.

Community Name is a plain text string used for SNMP Version 1.

When you select this option, the community or the user can only query for information (SNMPGETs).

If the SNMP Version 1 is enabled, SNMP Version 1 can communicate with the SNMP agents on the server.

SNMP Version 1: Community Name (read-write) Enter a community name and select enabled or disabled from the drop-down list.

Community Name is a plain text string used for SNMP Version 1.

When you select this option, the community or the user can query for information and send commands to the agents (SNMPSETs).

SNMP Version 2c: Community Name (read-only) Enter a community name and select enabled or disabled from the drop-down list.

Community Name is a plain text string used for SNMP Version 2c.

When you select this option, the community or the user can only query for information (SNMPGETs).

If the SNMP Version 2c is enabled, SNMP Version 2c can communicate with the SNMP agents on the server.

SNMP Version 2c: Community Name (read-write) Enter a community name and select enabled or disabled from the drop-down list.

Community Name is a plain text string used for SNMP Version 2c.

When you select this option, the community or the user can query for information and send commands to the agents (SNMPSETs).

SNMP Version 3 SNMP Version 3 provides the same data retrieval facilities as SNMP Version 1 and SNMP Version 2c with additional security.

A user name, authentication protocol, authentication password, privacy protocol, and privacy password are used to provide a secure method of authenticating the information so the device knows whether to respond to the query or not.

User (read-only) Select enabled or disabled from the drop-down list.

Entering a user name, authentication protocol, authentication password, privacy protocol, and privacy password in this section provides the user with read functionality only.

User (read-write) Select enabled or disabled from the drop-down list.

Entering a user name, authentication protocol, authentication password, privacy protocol, and privacy password in this section provides the user with read and write functionality.

User Name User Name is part of the user-based security model for SNMP Version 3.

The user name can be a maximum of 50 characters excluding quotation marks.

Authentication Protocol Select an authentication protocol from the drop-down list.
Authentication Password Enter a password for authenticating the user.

The user name can be a maximum of 50 characters excluding quotation marks.

Privacy Protocol Select a privacy protocol from the drop-down list.
Privacy Password Enter a password for privacy.

The privacy password can contain 8 to 50 characters excluding quotation marks.