Alcatel Carrier Internetworking Solutions omniswitch User Manual

SNMP Specifications

Using SNMP

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OmniSwitch 6600 Family Switch Management Guide

The following table lists specifications for the SNMP protocol.

The following table describes the default values of the SNMP protocol parameters.

RFCs Supported for SNMPv2

1902 through 1907 - SNMPv2c Management Framework
1908 - Coexistence and transitions relating to SNMPv1 and SNMPv2c

RFCs Supported for SNMPv3

2570 – Version 3 of the Internet Standard Network Management 

Framework

2571 – Architecture for Describing SNMP Management Frameworks
2572 – Message Processing and Dispatching for SNMP
2573 – SNMPv3 Applications
2574 – User-based Security Model (USM) for version 3 SNMP
2575 – View-based Access Control Model (VACM) for SNMP
2576 – Coexistence between SNMP versions

SNMPv1, SNMPv2, SNMPv3

The SNMPv3 protocol is ascending compatible with SNMPv1 and v2 
and supports all the SNMPv1 and SNMPv2 PDUs

SNMPv1 and SNMPv2 
Authentication

Community Strings 

SNMPv1, SNMPv2 Encryption

None

SNMPv1 and SNMPv2 Security 
requests accepted by the switch

Sets and Gets

SNMPv3 Authentication 

SHA, MD5

SNMPv3 Encryption

DES

SNMPv3 Security requests 
accepted by the switch.

Non-authenticated Sets, Non-authenticated Gets and Get-Nexts, 
Authenticated Sets, Authenticated Gets and Get-Nexts, Encrypted Sets, 
Encrypted Gets and Get-Nexts

SNMP traps

Refer to the table on 

 for a complete list of traps and their

definitions.

SNMP Management Station

UDP port 162, SNMPv3, Enabled

Community Strings

Enabled

SNMP Security setting

Privacy all (highest) security

Trap filtering

Disabled

Trap Absorption

Enabled

Enables the forwarding of traps to 
WebView.

Enabled

Enables or disables SNMP 
authentication failure trap forwarding.

Disabled