Saturday, February 9, 2008

Authentication and authorization

For emergency reasons, the making systems part of a net SNMP come group in one so-called community to you. The community is identified from one tightens of 32 byte and every system can belong more than one than these. Agent the only demanded SNMP chip ax from a manager of the same community. The authorization of the members of a community to operate on an object can be of three types:

* read: the manager it can interrogate the agent in order to only know the state of system (only GET)
* write: where the manager it can also vary of formulation (GET and SET)
* trap: the agent it can send trap to the manager

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