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You can use SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) to manage network devices and monitor their processes. An SNMP-managed device, such as a NIOS appliance, has an SNMP agent that collects data and stores them as objects in MIBs (Management Information Bases). The SNMP agent can also send traps (or notifications) to alert you when certain events occur within the appliance or on the network. You can view data in the SNMP MIBs and receive SNMP traps on a management system running an SNMP management application, such as HP OpenView, IBM Tivoli NetView, or any of the freely available or commercial SNMP management applications on the Internet.
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The NIOS appliance supports SNMPv1, SNMPv2, and SNMPv3. It also adheres to the following RFCs:

  • RFC 3411, An Architecture for Describing Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) Management Frameworks
  • RFC 3412, Message Processing and Dispatching for the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
  • RFC 3413, Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) Applications
  • RFC 3414, User-based Security Model (USM) for version 3 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
  • RFC 3416, Version 2 of the Protocol Operations for the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
  • RFC 3418, Management Information Base (MIB) for the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
  • RFC 1155, Structure and identification of Management information for TCP/IP-based internets
  • RFC 1213, Management Information Base for Network Management of TCP/IP-based internets:MIB-II
  • RFC 2578, Structure of Management Information Version 2 (SMIv2)

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About SNMPv1 and SNMPv2
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About SNMPv1 and SNMPv2

SNMPv1 is the initial implementation of SNMP. It operates over protocols such as UDP (User Datagram Protocol) and IP (Internet Protocol). SNMPv2 includes improvements in performance and security. It adds new protocol operations such as GetBulk and Inform, which allow the management system to request larger blocks of data from the agent. Both SNMPv1 and SNMPv2 use common strings that are sent in clear text to authenticate clients.
The NIOS appliance supports SNMPv1 and SNMPv2 in which the SNMPv2 agent acts as a proxy agent for the SNMPv1 management systems. When an SNMPv1 management system sends a query to the appliance, the SNMPv2 proxy agent forwards the request to the SNMPv1 agent. The proxy agent maps the SNMPv1 trap messages to the SNMPv2 trap messages, and then forward the messages to the management system.
You can enable the appliance to receive queries from SNMPv1 and SNMPv2 management systems. You can also add SNMPv1 and SNMPv2 management systems to receive traps from the appliance. For information about how to configure SNMPv1 and SNMPv2 on the appliance, see Configuring SNMP.

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About User-Based Security Model in SNMPv3

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To enable SNMPv3 on the NIOS appliance to provide user-based security, you must first configure SNMPv3 users on the appliance to enable access by SNMP management systems. The appliance supports HMAC-MD5-96 and
HMAC-SHA-96 hash functions as the authentication protocols, and DES (Data Encryption Standard) and AES (Advanced Encryptions Standard) as the encryption methods for SNMPv3 users. For information, see Configuring SNMP.