SNMPv3 Issues, can anyone help?

[americanmcneil]

Hi all,

I am trying to get some 5510's set up with snmpv3 to take advantage of multiple individual account user creation and password encryption as required for PCI compliance as PCI says that you cant have shared usernames/passwords blah blah blah, I won't bore you with the particulars.

Anyone familiar with setting this up from scratch? The manual (ver 6.2.1, latest for 5510) says that you need to go in command line and set certain things up before you can create users and whatnot through the GUI. This is the part i am having trouble with. Anyone know how to set up a generic admin account with the proper view groups (view groups is what i am having problems setting up/understanding) so that I can then go through and set up users in either the JDM or the web interface?

Thanks in advance for ANY help or advice!

Americanmcneil
Network+

Now: Assistant Network Administrator
Then: Area Network Coordinator
Wireless Network Engineer/Integrator

 

[NARBE]

Hello,

To start using snmpv3 I let you some command lines that will help you.

conf t
snmp-server view writetest +1.3 ! thats create a view
snmp-server user RW read-view writetest write-view writetest sha <authentication-password> aes <privacy-password> ! thats create a user and associate to a view (= rights).

Then you connect using snmpv3 on the switch and you can have access graphically to all this snmpv3 things. To connect with jdm for this user: select snmpv3; put the user on "User Name"; choose "SHA-96" as Authentication Protocol; put the password defined on <authentication-password>; choose for Pivacy Protocol "AES"; put the password defined on <privacy-password>.

Off course the image must be "s".

Hope this help you.