Carrier Access Broadmore 1750 - Manual (Page 327)

Broadmore 1750 - Release 4.6 12-9
SNMP Configuration
Users
When adding a new user (either through New or Copy action), the system will present
an option to either enter the Authentication and Privacy (Encryption) Key either
directly (Key) or as a Password (Password to Key), as shown below.
In case you choose to enter the key information as a password, the system will
internally generate a key value corresponding to the password entered and maintain
that information for the user. This is done because some SNMP clients use keys for
authentication and encryption, while others use passwords. For clients that use
passwords, a user needs to be created with passwords for the Authentication and
Encryption parameters. After choosing either “Key” or “Password to key”, press “OK”
and fill in the parameters described in the table above to define the new user, as shown
in the following New Users Entry screen.
NOTE: When editing a user who has been created with a password for
Authentication and Privacy, you can only edit the resulting key. This is
because Broadmore converts the password to a key while saving the user
information and does not maintain any record of the original password that
had been entered.