SNMP
Group Membership
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The Group Member Parameters area contains the following fields:
• User Name — Defines the group member’s user name.
• Engine ID — Indicates either the local or remote SNMP entity to which the
user is connected.
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Local
— Indicates that the user is connected to a local SNMP entity.
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Remote
— Indicates that the user is connected to a remote SNMP entity,
and can receive inform messages.
• Group Name — Contains a list of user-defined SNMP groups. SNMP groups
are defined in the SNMP Group Profile page.
• Authentication Method — Indicates the Authentication method used. The
possible field values are:
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None
— Indicates that no authentication method is used.
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MD5 Password
— An HMAC-MD5-96 password is used for
authentication. The user should enter a password.
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SHA Password
— Users are authenticated using the HMAC-SHA-96
authentication level. The user should enter a password.
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MD5 Key
— Users are authenticated using the HMAC-MD5 algorithm.
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SHA Key
— Users are authenticated using the HMAC-SHA-96
authentication level.
• Password — Defines the local user password. Local user passwords can
contain up to 159 characters.
• Authentication Key — Defines the HMAC-MD5-96 or HMAC-SHA-96
authentication level. The authentication and privacy keys are entered to
define the authentication key. If only authentication is required, 16 bytes are
defined for HMAC-MD5-96 and 20 bytes are defined for HMAC-SHA-96. If
both privacy and authentication are required, 32 bytes are defined for
HMAC-MD5-96 and 36 bytes are defined for HMAC-SHA-96. Each byte in
hexadecimal character strings is two hexadecimal digits.
• Privacy Key — Defines the Privacy Key (LSB). If only authentication is
required, 16 bytes are defined. Each byte in hexadecimal character strings
is two hexadecimal digits. Each byte can be separated by a period or colon.
STEP 2 Define the relevant fields.