Re: Looking for clarification regarding users for v3 traps

On 07/05/07, Miller, Jeff (eng) <Jeff.Miller@adc.com> wrote:
> In particular, is there a security name collision between the local
> snmpd and the remote snmptrapd?

Probably, yes.
Have you seen the tutorial page
" TRAPs vs INFORMs for SNMPv3"
(http://net-snmp.sourceforge.net/wiki...nmptrap_SNMPv3)
?

This explains something of the issues relating to SNMPv3 engineID's
as they relate to notifications (traps and informs).


> I have now established the security name "jeff" for informs but I see no
> means to associate authentication and security passwords with the security
> name "jeff" unless I also do a createUser for "jeff" in the snmpd.conf file
> on the local host as well as in the snmptrapd.conf file on the remote host.

The "trapsess" directive can accept the -A and -X flags, to specify the
appropriate passwords. (Though obviously there are security considerations
to doing this!)

Dave

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