SNMP MIB Configuration
The NetProfiler MIB can be browsed by external applications and devices. NetProfiler supports browsing by Version 1, 2c and 3 clients but can support only one type of client at a time. To limit support to SNMP V1 clients, fill out the Location, Description, Contact, and Community fields. To support SNMP V3 clients, fill out the authentication and optional privacy information fields instead of the Community field.
Note: SNMP settings do not support single quotes, double quotes, and the backslash character ( ', ", and \). All other UTF-8 characters are supported.
The SNMP MIB configuration fields on the Administration > General Settings page include:
Username: SNMP security name that the application attempting to browse the MIB must use.
Security level: Choose among No Authentication/No Privacy, Authentication/No Privacy, or Authentication/Privacy. This enables the appropriate fields below.
Authentication passphrase: String that the application attempting to browse the MIB must use to authenticate itself to the NetProfiler.
Authentication protocol: Algorithm that the NetProfiler must use to decipher the authentication passphrase used by the application attempting to browse the MIB. This can be MD5 or SHA.
Privacy passphrase: String that the application attempting to browse the MIB must use.
Privacy protocol: Algorithm that the NetProfiler must use to decipher the privacy passphrase used by the application attempting to browse the MIB. NetProfiler uses DES at this time.
Note that certain SNMP configurations are modified when the appliance is switched into the FIPS 140-3 Compatible Cryptography mode.
FIPS 140-3 compatible cryptography