Web Management Guide-R04

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Chapter 13
| Basic Administration Protocols
Simple Network Management Protocol
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Engine Boots – The number of times that the engine has (re-)initialized since
the SNMP Engine ID was last configured.
Web Interface
To configure the local SNMP engine ID:
1. Click Administration, SNMP.
2. Select Configure Engine from the Step list.
3. Select Set Engine ID from the Action list.
4. Enter an ID of a least 9 hexadecimal characters.
5. Click Apply
Figure 278: Configuring the Local Engine ID for SNMP
Specifying a Remote
Engine ID
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.
Command Usage
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 455.)
Parameters
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”.