Re: snmpset password field?

[Charles Menzes <charles@lunarmedia.net>]

Yes, that is how my experience has always gone with using snmp. But check 
out this snippet from the vendor's website...

Disables password checking for SNMP set requests. If a third-party SNMP 
management application does not add a password to the password field when 
it sends SNMP set requests to a device, by default the  device rejects the 
request. You can disable this password checking with the no snmp-server 
pw-check command.

I'm sending the community string as part of my snmpset, but the remote 
device just shrugs off the set request until I disable the password check 
using the 'no snmp-server pw-check' command. Once its disabled, the set 
works like a charm. I was just curious if anyone had heard of the 
'password field'. I don't think its the v3 password, since I don't see a 
v3 engine id configured on the box, and, like I mentioned, disabling the 
password check causes my set request to work. And since I am not 
specifying an snmp version, I think it defaults to v1.

-c


On Tue, 27 Aug 2002, Benjamin Story wrote:

> Generally SNMP "passwords" are the public and private strings by default.  Usually when you are doing a snmpset you need the private string which defaults to private, but should be changed on the device.  The command would be:
> 
> snmpset <ip_of_device> <private string> ...
> 
> On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 11:09:03PM -0500, Charles Menzes wrote:
> > I've come across something recently that is very new to me. I found that 
> > some networking equipment I am using requires that a "password" be sent 
> > with any snmpset requests. I've read through 'man snmpset' and I'm just 
> > not seeing where a pw can be set. Reading through the network vendor's 
> > documents, the password they are referring to is NOT the SNMPv3 auth 
> > password. Is this something anyone else is familiar with?
> > 
> > thanks -c
> > 
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