Re: SNMPv3 Authentication Error

Hello Ali,

Use the following two lines in snmpd.conf instead and it will work.
rwuser guest *authNoPriv*
createUser guest SHA password

Regards,
Ashok

On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 3:55 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> 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)
>
> Does anyone know what the problem could be?
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Regards,
>
> Ali
>
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