LevelOne GSW-4876 User Manual

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| Configuring the Switch

Configuring Security

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ARAMETERS

These parameters are displayed:

Engine ID - The engine identifier for the SNMP agent on the remote

device where the user resides. (Range: 10-64 hex digits, excluding a

string of all 0’s or all F’s)
To send inform messages to 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 authenticating and encrypting packets

sent to a user on the remote host.
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

SNMP System and Trap Settings" on page 69

.)

User Name - The name of user connecting to the SNMP agent.

(Range: 1-32 characters, ASCII characters 33-126 only)

Security Level - The security level assigned to the user:

NoAuth, NoPriv - There is no authentication or encryption used in

SNMP communications. (This is the default for SNMPv3.)

Auth, NoPriv - SNMP communications use authentication, but the

data is not encrypted.

Auth, Priv - SNMP communications use both authentication and

encryption.

Authentication Protocol - The method used for user authentication.

(Options: None, MD5, SHA; Default: MD5)

Authentication Password - A plain text string identifying the

authentication pass phrase. (Range: 1-32 characters for MD5, 8-40

characters for SHA)

Privacy Protocol - The encryption algorithm use for data privacy; only

56-bit DES is currently available. (Options: None, DES; Default: DES)

Privacy Password - A string identifying the privacy pass phrase.

(Range: 8-40 characters, ASCII characters 33-126 only)

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To configure SNMPv3 users:

1.

Click Advanced Configuration, Security, Switch, SNMP, Users.

2.

Click “Add new user” to configure a user name.

3.

Enter a remote Engine ID of up to 64 hexadecimal characters

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