Cisco 4700M Administration Manual page 219

Chapter 7 Configuring SNMP
Restrictions
This topic includes the following restrictions:
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Detailed Steps
Command
Step 1
config
Example:
host1/host1/Admin# config
host1/Admin(config)#
Step 2
snmp-server user user_name [ group_name ]
[auth {md5 | sha} password1 [localizedkey
| priv { password2 | aes-128 password2 }]]
Example:
host1/Admin(config)# snmp-server user joe
Network-Monitor auth sha abcd1234
OL-20823-01
The ACE supports a maximum of 28 SNMP users for each context.
User configuration through the snmp-server user command is applicable for SNMPv3 only;
SNMPv1 and SNMPv2c use a community string match for user authentication (see the
SNMP Communities" section).
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Purpose
Enters global configuration mode.
Configures SNMP user information.
The keywords, arguments, and options are as follows:
user_name—Username. Enter an unquoted text string with
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no space and a maximum of 24 alphanumeric characters.
group_name—(Optional) User role group to which the user
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belongs. Enter Network-Monitor, the default group name
and the only role that is supported.
Only network monitoring operations are supported
Note
through the ACE implementation of SNMP. In this
case, all SNMP users are automatically assigned the
system-defined default group of Network-Monitor.
For details on creating users, see the Cisco 4700
Series Application Control Engine Appliance
Virtualization Configuration Guide.
auth—(Optional) Sets authentication parameters for the
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user. Authentication determines that the message is from a
valid source.
md5—Specifies the HMAC Message Digest 5 (MD5)
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encryption algorithm for user authentication.
sha—Specifies the HMAC Secure Hash Algorithm (SHA)
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encryption algorithm for user authentication.
Configuring SNMP
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