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Configure SNMP Authentication and Privacy Protocols

Access the appliance shell and log in as a user who has the administrator or super administrator role.

The default user with super administrator role is root.

To Configure authentication protocol run snmp.set  --authentication (Protocol) command

Protocol can be either none,SHA1 or MD5

The following Example shows the required configuration to configure authentication protocol as SHA1

snmp.set --authentication  SHA1


To configure privacy protocol run snmp.set  --privacy  (Protocol) command

Protocol can be either none or AES128

The following Example showing the required configuration to configure privacy  protocol as AES128

snmp.set --privacy AES128

Additional Details can be found here

If you are using authentication or privacy, get the authentication and privacy hash values for the user by  running snmp.hash --auth_hash --priv_hash

Configure SNMP V3 Users

Access the appliance shell and log in as a user who has the administrator or super administrator role.

The default user with super administrator role is root.

If you are using authentication or privacy, get the authentication and privacy hash values for the user by the running snmp.hash --auth_hash 

The following example shows the required configuration to set up secret1  as  path to the file containing the user's authentication password and secret2 as path to the file containing the user's privacy password

snmp.hash --auth_hash secret1--priv_hash secret2

Configure the user by running snmp.set --user (userid)/(authhash)/(privhash)/(security) command

Snmp.set  --user command parameters Table

ParameterDescription
useridEnter Username
authhashEnter authentication hash value if any
privhashEnter the privacy hash value if any
Security
  • Enter auth for authentication  only
  • Enter priv for authentication and privacy
  • Enter none for no authentication and privacy

Additional Details can be found here

Configure SNMP V3 Targets

Access the appliance shell and log in as a user who has the administrator or super administrator role.

The default user with super administrator role is root.

Run snmp.set --v3targets (hostname@port)/(userid)/(seclevel)/(trap)


snmp.set --v3targets command parameters Table

ParameterDescritption
hostnameEnter VSM Probe IP Address
portEnter the port you want to use ,if not specified the default 161 will be used
useridEnter SNMP v3 user name
secLevel
  • Enter none if you have not configured authentication and privacy protocol
  • Enter auth if you have configured authentication only
  • Enter priv if you have configured both authentication and privacy

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vCenter SNMP Configuration

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