Users Guide

1 SNMPv3 authentication provides only the sha option when the FIPS mode is enabled.
2 SNMPv3 privacy provides only the aes128 privacy option when the FIPS mode is enabled.
3 If you attempt to enable or disable FIPS mode and if any SNMPv3 users are previously congured, an error message is displayed
stating you must delete all of the SNMP users before changing the FIPS mode.
4 A message is logged indicating whether FIPS mode is enabled for SNMPv3. This message is generated only when the rst SNMPv3
user is congured because you can modify the FIPS mode only when users are not previously congured. This log message is
provided to assist your system security auditing procedures.
Conguration Task List for SNMP
Conguring SNMP version 1 or version 2 requires a single step.
NOTE: The congurations in this chapter use a UNIX environment with net-snmp version 5.4. This environment is only one of
many RFC-compliant SNMP utilities you can use to manage your Dell Networking system using SNMP. Also, these congurations
use SNMP version 2c.
• Creating a Community
Conguring SNMP version 3 requires conguring SNMP users in one of three methods. Refer to Setting Up User-Based Security
(SNMPv3).
Related Conguration Tasks
• Managing Overload on Startup
• Reading Managed Object Values
• Writing Managed Object Values
• Subscribing to Managed Object Value Updates using SNMP
• Copying Conguration Files via SNMP
• Manage VLANs Using SNMP
• Enabling and Disabling a Port using SNMP
• Fetch Dynamic MAC Entries using SNMP
• Deriving Interface Indices
• Monitor Port-channels
Important Points to Remember
• Typically, 5-second timeout and 3-second retry values on an SNMP server are sucient for both LAN and WAN applications. If you
experience a timeout with these values, increase the timeout value to greater than 3 seconds, and increase the retry value to greater
than 2 seconds on your SNMP server.
• User ACLs override group ACLs.
Set up SNMP
As previously stated, Dell Networking OS supports SNMP version 1 and version 2 that are community-based security models.
The primary dierence between the two versions is that version 2 supports two additional protocol operations (informs operation and
snmpgetbulk query) and one additional object (counter64 object).
SNMP version 3 (SNMPv3) is a user-based security model that provides password authentication for user security and encryption for data
security and privacy. Three sets of congurations are available for SNMP read/write operations: no password or privacy, password
privileges, password and privacy privileges.
You can congure a maximum of 16 users even if they are in dierent groups.
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