WebNMS SNMP Agent Toolkit Java Edition helps in building
SNMP v3 agents. SNMP v3 is brought in mainly to overcome
the security vulnerabilities, such as eavesdropping
during data transmission, that were prevalent in the
earlier versions of SNMP protocol. Agents that implement
SNMP v3 showcase better security and administrative
capabilities. For device/application that requires high-level
of security, SNMP v3 based agents are highly recommended.
Key Features and Benefits
Features
Benefits
Support for User-based Security
Model (USM) as defined in the SNMP standards (RFC 3414).
Provides security
using authentication and privacy services.
Support for View-based Access
Control Model (VACM) as defined in the SNMP standards
(RFC 3415).
Restricts
particular users in accessing managed object(s) in the
MIB view of SNMPv3 agents.
Support for co-existence
of SNMPv1, v2c, and v3 agent
Enables to communicate with
multi-lingual agents i.e, provides mechanism for adapting
SNMPv1/v2c into the VACM and thus making the agent strictly
v3.
Support for
SNMP-NOTIFICATION-MIB and SNMP-TARGET-MIB (RFC 3413)
Stores remote
management details to send notification in an SNMP entity.
SNMP v3 Compliance
Implements managed objects
as per SNMP standards that exposes the behaviour of the
SNMPv3 entity.
