HP ProCurve Series 3400cl Release Notes page 46

Enhancements
Release M.08.89 Enhancements
S e c u r i t y N o t es
Passwords and keys configured in the hpSwitchAuth MIB are not returned via SNMP, and the
response to SNMP queries for such information is a null string. However, SNMP sets can be used to
configure password and key MIB objects.
To help prevent unauthorized access to the switch's authentication MIB, ProCurve recommends
enhancing security according to the guidelines under
If you do not want to use SNMP access to the switch's authentication configuration MIB, then you
should use the snmp-server mib hpswitchauthmib excluded command to disable this access, as
described in the next section.
If you choose to leave SNMP access to the security MIB open (the default setting), ProCurve
recommends that you configure the switch with the SNMP version 3 management and access security
feature, and disable SNMP version 2c access. (Refer to
Changing and Viewing the SNMP Access Configuration
Syntax: snmp-server mib hpswitchauthmib < excluded | included >
included: Enables manager-level SNMP read/write access to the switch's authentica-
tion configuration (hpSwitchAuth) MIB.
excluded: Disables manager-level SNMP read/write access to the switch's authenti-
cation configuration (hpSwitchAuth) MIB.
(Default: included )
Syntax: show snmp-server
The output for this command has been enhanced to display the current access status
of the switch's authentication configuration MIB in the Excluded MIBs field.
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