Re: How snmpget encryption-decryption keys exchanged between Agent and remote host.

[Dave S. <D.T...@li...>]

On 23 March 2011 21:20, sunaina mangla <sun...@gm...> wrote:
>                                      You mean to say if I have any
> default user created in snmpd.conf .....
> then can't I just use username and passphrase in snmpget command and I
> am good to go.

Yes - of course you can.


>     What initial set up you are talking about ?

Putting the user information into (one of) the snmpd.conf files




> Apart from above , I have couple of more related ques :
>
> 1.  Suppose user create another user on run time then whether this new
> user would be persistent on next reboot ?

Yes

>        if yes how ?

It's saved in the persistent config file (typically /var/net-snmp/snmpd.conf
or possibly /var/lib/snmp/snmpd.conf)

[I'll come back to the second question separately]

Dave