Hi,
I have searched through the archive and still not clear on a couple of issues. I am starting work on writing a client using UCD SNMP to query CISCO router using SNMPv3 for info.
The problem is that a number of things are not clear to me and I was hoping somebody would clarify these issues.
The way I understand things the keys for authentication and privacy both need to be set up on the router (they may be generated by the router not sure), but they also need to be set in the code to both session.securityAuthKey and session.securityPrivKey could be assigned keys that would be the same as on the router?
I have searched through the archive and still not clear on a couple of issues. I am starting work on writing a client using UCD SNMP to query CISCO router using SNMPv3 for info.
The problem is that a number of things are not clear to me and I was hoping somebody would clarify these issues.
The way I understand things the keys for authentication and privacy both need to be set up on the router (they may be generated by the router not sure), but they also need to be set in the code to both session.securityAuthKey and session.securityPrivKey could be assigned keys that would be the same as on the router?
Or do these
get generated based on the
passphrases passed in to generate_KU? but then how is CISCO router supposed to
decrypt it? However CISCO documentation suggests "The security keys used for
authenticating and encrypting SNMPv3 packets are generated as a function of the
authoritative SNMP engine's engine ID and user
passwords."
DO I understand
this correctly that UCD library will generate msgAuthoritativeEngineID for me?
So at the end of the day the only
things that I should care about as paramterst to UCD APIs are keys, and user
name as well as the target and things I am inquiring
about?
Any information and
help is greatly appreciated.
