Re: SNMPv3 Authentication Error

On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 12:25 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:

> I am trying to configure my Net-SNMP sub-agent to be an SNMPv3 agent with
> SHA Authentication and no privacy. I have been succesfully running it as an
> SNMPv2 agent up until now. My configuration is that I have a Master Agent
>  communicating with a Perl Sub Agent using AgentX and running on Windows. I
> am using version 5.7.1 pre release 2 of Net-SNMP and have built it with SSL
> support.
>
> I tried to set up an SNMPv3 user using the net-snmp-config script which
> gave me the error below - I don't see it installed on my PC.:
>
> 'net-snmp-config' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
> operable program or batch file.
>
> Instead I tried to modify the snmpd.conf file to create a user as per the
> snmpd.conf documentation as follows:
>
> createUser guest SHA password
> rwuser guest
>
>
> When I try to issue an SNMP get request I get the following authentication
> error:
>
> R:\software>snmpget -v 3 -u guest -a SHA -A password -l authNoPriv
> 127.0.0.1:8161 SNMPv2-MIB::sysUpTime.0
> snmpget: USM authentication failure (incorrect password or key)
>

Not sure why SHA doesn't work. Have you already tried to the same with MD5
instead of SHA ? MD5 works fine here.

Bart.

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