Quick Reference Guide

354 SNMP Commands
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• auth-md5 password — Indicates the HMAC-MD5-96 authentication level. The user should
enter a password for authentication and generation of a DES key for privacy. (Range: 1 - 32
characters)
•
auth-sha password — Indicates the HMAC-SHA-96 authentication level. The user should
enter a password for authentication and generation of a DES key for privacy. (Range: 1 - 32
characters)
•
auth-md5-key md5-des-keys — Indicates the HMAC-MD5-96 authentication level. The
user should enter a concatenated hexadecimal string of the MD5 key (MSB) and the privacy
key (LSB). If authentication is only required, 16 bytes should be entered; if authentication
and privacy are required, 32 bytes should be entered. Each byte in the hexadecimal character
string is two hexadecimal digits. Each byte can be separated by a period or colon. (16 or 32
bytes)
•
auth-sha-key sha-des-keys — Indicates the HMAC-SHA-96 authentication level. The user
should enter a concatenated hexadecimal string of the SHA key (MSB) and the privacy key
(LSB). If authentication is only required, 20 bytes should be entered; if authentication and
privacy are required, 36 bytes should be entered. Each byte in the hexadecimal character
string is two hexadecimal digits. Each byte can be separated by a period or colon. (20 or 36
bytes)
Default Configuration
No group entry exists.
Command Mode
Global Configuration mode.
User Guidelines
• If auth-md5 or auth-sha is specified, both authentication and privacy are enabled for the user.
•When a
show running-config Privileged EXEC mode command is entered, a line for this user
will not be displayed. To see if this user has been added to the configuration, type the
show
snmp users
Privileged EXEC mode command.
• An SNMP EngineID has to be defined to add SNMP users to the device. Changing or removing
the SNMP EngineID value deletes SNMPv3 users from the device’s database.
• The remote engineid designates the remote management station and should be defined to enable
the device to receive informs.
Examples
The following example configures an SNMPv3 user John in group user-group.
Console(config)# snmp-server user John user-group