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md5 | sha (OPTIONAL) Enter the keyword md5 or sha to designate the authentication level.
● md5 — Message Digest Algorithm
● sha — Secure Hash Algorithm
auth-password (OPTIONAL) Enter a text string (up to 20 characters long) password that enables
the agent to receive packets from the host and to send packets to the host.
Minimum: eight characters long.
priv des56 (OPTIONAL) Enter the keywords priv des56 to initiate a privacy authentication
level setting using the CBC-DES privacy authentication algorithm (des56).
aes128 (OPTIONAL) Enter the keyword aes128 to initiate the AES128-CFB encryption
algorithm for transmission of SNMP packets.
priv password (OPTIONAL) Enter a text string (up to 20 characters long) password that enables
the host to encrypt the contents of the message it sends to the agent and decrypt
the contents of the message it receives from the agent. Minimum: eight characters
long.
access-list-name (Optional) Enter the standard IPv4 access list name (a string up to 16 characters
long).
Defaults If no authentication or privacy option is configured, then the messages are exchanged (attempted
anyway) without any authentication or encryption.
Command Modes CONFIGURATION
Supported Modes Full–Switch Mode
Command
History
Version Description
9.9(0.0) Introduced on the FN IOM.
9.3(0.0) Added support for the AES128-CFB encryption algorithm on the MXL 10/40GbE
Switch IO Module platform.
8.3.16.1 Introduced on the MXL 10/40GbE Switch IO Module.
Usage
Information
No default values exist for authentication or privacy algorithms and no default password exists. If you
forget a password, you cannot recover it; the user must be reconfigured. You can specify either a
plain-text password or an encrypted cypher-text password. In either case, the password is stored in
the configuration in an encrypted form and displayed as encrypted in the show running-config
command.
If you have an encrypted password, you can specify the encrypted string instead of the plain-text
password. The following command is an Example of how to specify the command with an encrypted
string.
NOTE: The number of configurable users is limited to 16.
Example
Dell# snmp-server user privuser v3group v3 encrypted auth md5
9fc53d9d908118b2804fe80e3ba8763d priv des56
d0452401a8c3ce42804fe80e3ba8763d
Usage
Information
The following command is an example of how to enter a plain-text password as the string authpasswd
for user authuser of group v3group.
Example
Dell#conf
Dell(conf)# snmp-server user authuser v3group v3 auth md5 authpasswd
Usage
Information
The following command configures a remote user named n3user with a v3 security model and a security
level of authNOPriv.
Example
Dell#conf
Dell(conf)# snmp-server user n3user ngroup remote 172.31.1.3 udp-port
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