Re: How snmpget encryption-decryption keys exchanged between Agent and remote host.

2011-03-24 Thread Dave Shield
On 23 March 2011 21:20, sunaina mangla wrote: > You mean to say if I have any > default user created in snmpd.conf . > then can't I just use username and passphrase in snmpget command and I > am good to go. Yes - of course you can. > What initial set

Re: How snmpget encryption-decryption keys exchanged between Agent and remote host.

2011-03-23 Thread sunaina mangla
Hi , Actually I am bit confused in this. You mean to say if I have any default user created in snmpd.conf ( we have two snmpd.conf , one is for confguration generally in /usr/local/share/snmp/snmpd.conf and another is persistent data file which is in var/lib/snmp/snmpd.conf) , then can't I just us

Re: How snmpget encryption-decryption keys exchanged between Agent and remote host.

2011-03-22 Thread Dave Shield
On 23 March 2011 01:50, sunaina mangla wrote: > What about default user? In this case, we don't create the user? Then you can't use SNMPv3 SNMPv3 (strictly SNMPv3/USM) *requires* that some set of initial user(s) are set up in advance. (Wes will no doubt correct me if I'm wrong here) Dav

Re: How snmpget encryption-decryption keys exchanged between Agent and remote host.

2011-03-22 Thread sunaina mangla
Hi Dave, What about default user? In this case, we don't create the user? then how that certificate exchange ? regards, sunaina On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 1:22 AM, Dave Shield wrote: > On 22 March 2011 01:47, sunaina mangla wrote: >> In Net-Snmp, When the default user fire snmpget or snmpset (v3

Re: How snmpget encryption-decryption keys exchanged between Agent and remote host.

2011-03-22 Thread Dave Shield
On 22 March 2011 01:47, sunaina mangla wrote: > In Net-Snmp, When the default user fire snmpget or snmpset (v3) > command , the command is encrypted and encrypted message is sent to > the Snmp Agent. > > SnmpAgent decrypts this message and prcocess it.  So there has to be > exchange of encryption-

How snmpget encryption-decryption keys exchanged between Agent and remote host.

2011-03-21 Thread sunaina mangla
Hi, In Net-Snmp, When the default user fire snmpget or snmpset (v3) command , the command is encrypted and encrypted message is sent to the Snmp Agent. SnmpAgent decrypts this message and prcocess it. So there has to be exchange of encryption-decryption keys between SNMP and and that user before