Specifying a remote engine id – Microsens MS453490M Management Guide User Manual

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Simple Network Management Protocol

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Use the Administration > SNMP (Configure Engine - Add Remote Engine)

page to configure a engine ID for a remote management station. To allow

management access from an SNMPv3 user on a remote device, you must

first specify the engine identifier for the SNMP agent on the remote device

where the user resides. The remote engine ID is used to compute the

security digest for authentication and encryption of packets passed

between the switch and a user on the remote host.

CLI R

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"snmp-server engine-id" on page 563

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SNMP passwords are localized using the engine ID of the authoritative

agent. For informs, the authoritative SNMP agent is the remote agent.

You therefore need to configure the remote agent’s SNMP engine ID

before you can send proxy requests or informs to it. (See

"Configuring

Remote SNMPv3 Users" on page 386

.)

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ARAMETERS

These parameters are displayed:

Remote Engine ID – The engine ID can be specified by entering 9 to

64 hexadecimal characters (5 to 32 octets in hexadecimal format). If

an odd number of characters are specified, a trailing zero is added to

the value to fill in the last octet. For example, the value “123456789” is

equivalent to “1234567890”.

Remote IP Host – The IP address of a remote management station

which is using the specified engine ID.

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