Snmp Operations; Snmp Protocol Versions - HP 5500 EI Series Configuration Manual

Figure 23 MIB tree
A MIB view represents a set of MIB objects (or MIB object hierarchies) with certain access privilege and
is identified by a view name. The MIB objects included in the MIB view are accessible while those
excluded from the MIB view are inaccessible.
A MIB view can have multiple view records each identified by a view-name oid-tree pair.
You control access to the MIB by assigning MIB views to SNMP groups or communities.

SNMP operations

SNMP provides the following basic operations:
• Get—The NMS retrieves SNMP object nodes in an agent MIB.
Set—The NMS modifies the value of an object node in an agent MIB.
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Notifications—Includes traps. SNMP agent sends traps or informs to report events to the NMS. The
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difference between these two types of notification is that informs require acknowledgement but
traps do not. The device supports only traps.

SNMP protocol versions

HP supports SNMPv1, SNMPv2c, and SNMPv3. An NMS and an SNMP agent must use the same
SNMP version to communicate with each other.
SNMPv1—Uses community names for authentication. To access an SNMP agent, an NMS must use
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the same community name as set on the SNMP agent. If the community name used by the NMS is
different from that set on the agent, the NMS cannot establish an SNMP session to access the agent
or receive traps from the agent.
SNMPv2c—Uses community names for authentication. SNMPv2c is compatible with SNMPv1, but
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supports more operation modes, data types, and error codes.
SNMPv3—Uses a user-based security model (USM) to secure SNMP communication. You can
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configure authentication and privacy mechanisms to authenticate and encrypt SNMP packets for
integrity, authenticity, and confidentiality.
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