Re: specifying SNMP version

Great! thanks a lot.

Dave Shield wrote:

>On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 17:06 +0800, Ronnel P. Maglasang wrote:
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>>Is it possible to specify which SNMP version when running snmpd from
>>command line or snmpd.conf? Can I run it on v3? only v2c or both?
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>You can't completely remove SNMPv3 or SNMPv2c support from the agent
>without re-compiling it.  But you can configure the agent so that
>it only *responds* to SNMPv3 or SNMPv2c requests.
>  That's done using the access control settings.
>
>Bottom line - if there is no access control configured for a given
>SNMP version, then the agent won't respond to such requests.
>
>So if you ensure that *none* of your 'snmpd.conf' files contain
>any lines of the form
>
>	rouser	{something}
>	rwuser  {something}
>or
>	group   {some}  usm   {thing}
>
>then the agent won't respond to SNMPv3 requests.
>
>Similarly, if they don't contain any lines of the form
>
>	rocommunity	{something}
>	rwcommunity	{something}
>or
>	group   {some}  v2c   {thing}
>
>then the agent won't respond to SNMPv2c requests.
>
>Dave
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