Black Box MPSH16-D20-120V User Manual

 

13.  Operation via SNMP

If SNMP Access Parameters have been defined as described in Section 5.9.6, then 

you will be able to manage user accounts, control power and reboot switching and 

display unit status via SNMP.  This section describes SNMP communication with the 

Outlet Managed PDU, and lists some common commands that can be employed to 

manage users, control switching and reboot actions and display unit status.

13.1.  Outlet Managed PDU SNMP Agent

The Outlet Managed PDU’s SNMP Agent supports various configuration, control, 

status and event notification capabilities.  Managed objects are described in the 

EMPC-OMPDU-MIB.txt file, which can be found on the CDROM included with the 

Outlet Managed PDU and can be compiled for use with your SNMP client.

13.2.  SNMPv3 Authentication and Encryption

The major limitations of SNMPv2 were the failure to include proper username/

password login credentials (v2 only used a password type of login, i.e., community 

name) and the exclusion of encryption for data moving over the internet.  SNMPv3 

addresses both of these shortcomings.  

For SNMPv3, the Outlet Managed PDU supports two forms of Authentication/

Privacy: Auth/noPriv which requires a username/password, but does not encrypt data 

going over the internet and Auth/Priv which requires a username/password AND 

encrypts the data going over the internet using DES (AES is not supported at this 

time).  For the Password protocol, the Outlet Managed PDU supports either MD5  

or SHA1.