Technical information

Watson SHDSL Router

Web-based Management Manual

Watson-SHDSL-Router-GUI-Manual.doc

Version 2.3-03

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Revision: 2012-02-29

formation is exchanged between a management station and Watson's SNMP agent

in the form of an SNMP message. The advantage of the third version of SNMP

over the previous versions is that it provides user authentication, privacy, and ac-

cess control.

SNMPv3 specifies a User Security Model (USM) that defines the need to create an

SNMP user account, in order to secure the information exchange between the

management station and the SNMP agent. The following example demonstrates

how to define an SNMPv3 user account in Watson. Let's assume that you want to

add a new SNMPv3 user called "admin". For this purpose, perform the following

steps:

1. Add the SNMPv3 user account to the USM table.

2. Associate the user with a new or an existing group.

3. Associate the group with specific views.

4. Create the group views.

Step 1 is performed from Watson's CLI. Steps 2–4 are performed from a Linux

shell, as in the following example.

1. Add the new user (admin) to the USM table, by running the following conf set

commands from Watson's CLI:

Watson> conf set