User Manual Part 2

User’s Guide Version 1.0
SNMP Users – Users are used in SNMP version 3. They have the same access rights as
communities, but instead of a single community name there are user name and password. Strong
encryption is supported in SNMPv3.
Figure 189 –SNMP user
User Name – enter user name for read-only (RO) or read-write (RW) SNMP access [1-32 all ASCII
printable characters, no spaces].
Password – enter password for read-only (RO) or read-write (RW) SNMP access [8-32 all ASCII
characters, no spaces].
SNMP Proxies Table:
SNMP Proxies – SNMP proxy configuration specifies that any incoming SNMP requests can be send
to another host. SNMP proxy can be configured in such a way that can proxy only specified SNMP
request under specific OID (OID local). Click the new button to create SNMP proxy:
Figure 190 – Add SNMP Proxies
Context Name – enter the context name for SNMP proxy rule between client and AC. Context name
only works with SNMP v3. If a "context name" is specified, it assigns the proxy rule to a particular
context name within the local agent [1-32 all ASCII printable characters, no spaces]:
LAN
WAN
Figure 191– SNMP and Content Name
This is the proper way to query multiple SNMP agents through a single proxy. Assign each remote
agent to a different context name. Then you can use "snmpwalk -n contextname1" to walk one
remote proxied agent and "snmpwalk -n contextname2" to walk another, assuming you are using
SNMPv3 to talk to the proxy (snmpv1 and snmpv2c context mappings aren’t currently supported but
might be in the future) (see the Figure 191– SNMP and Content Name).
Type – select SNMP version for SNMP proxy rule between AP and AC [v1/v2c].
Community Name – enter community name for communicating with the host (see Figure 191– SNMP
and Content Name, the host is AP in this case) [1-32 all ASCII printable characters, no spaces].
IP Address – specify the host address (AP in our case) to which any incoming requests should be re-
sent [dots and digits].
OID Local – enter Object Identifier (OID) of MIB tree if you want to proxy only the specified SNMP
requests under the specific OID in the MIB tree. That part is specified by OID local tree [optional,
number and dots].
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OID Target – Optionally, you can relocate the "OID local” tree to the new location at the "OID target"
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