Re: [nv-l] SNMPv3

[James Shanks <jshanks@us.ibm.com>]

If you want to talk to devices using SNMPv3 then you must purchase the
Security Pack from SNMP Research.
SNMPv3 is all about encrypted community strings, and there is no mechanism
in base NetView to handle that.

The only thing you can download into NetView are MIBs.  And while a new MIB
might come from an RFC,  which then might enable you to query an agent who
responds to that MIB,  the query will be made in SNMPv1 format, with an
SNMPv1 un-encrypted community string, and the agent would have to reply in
the same way.

I'm not at all sure what would prompt this question phrased in this way, so
perhaps you might want to send me a note off-line.


James Shanks
Level 3 Support  for Tivoli NetView for UNIX and Windows
Tivoli Software / IBM Software Group


                                                                           
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Is it just as easy to load the SNMPv3 RFCs or does one need to purchase the
Security pack from Snmpresearch?


Thanks,
Steve