HP E4510-48G Command Reference Manual page 1136

If you do not specify the cipher keyword, the system considers the arguments auth-password and
priv-password as plain text passwords. In this case, if you perform the copy and paste operation,
the system will encrypt these two passwords, resulting in inconsistency of the cipher text and plain
text passwords of the two devices.
Note that:
If you use the snmp-agent usm-user v3 cipher command, the pri-password argument in this
command can be obtained by the snmp-agent calculate-password command. To make the
calculated cipher text password applicable to the snmp-agent usm-user v3 cipher command
and have the same effect as that in the snmp-agent usm-user v3 cipher command, ensure that
the same privacy protocol is specified for the two commands and the local engine ID specified in
the snmp-agent usm-user v3 cipher command is consistent with the SNMP entity engine ID
specified in the snmp-agent calculate-password command.
If you execute this command repeatedly to configure the same user (namely, the user names are
the same, no limitation to other keywords and arguments), the last configuration takes effect.
A plain text password is required when the NMS accesses the device; therefore, please remember
the user name and the plain text password when you create a user.
Related commands: snmp-agent calculate-password, snmp-agent group, snmp-agent usm-user { v1 |
v2c }.
Examples
# Add a user testUser to the SNMPv3 group testGroup. Configure the security model as
authentication without privacy, the authentication protocol as MD5, the plain-text authentication
password as authkey.
<Sysname> system-view
[Sysname] snmp-agent group v3 testGroup authentication
[Sysname] snmp-agent usm-user v3 testUser testGroup authentication-mode md5 authkey
Set the SNMP version on the NMS to SNMPv3
Fill in the user name testUser,
Set the authentication protocol to MD5
Set the authentication password to authkey
Establish a connection, and the NMS can access the MIB objects in the ViewDefault view on the
device
# Add a user testUser to the SNMPv3 group testGroup. Configure the security model as
authentication and privacy, the authentication protocol as MD5, the privacy protocol as DES56, the
plain-text authentication password as authkey, and the plain-text privacy password as prikey.
<Sysname> system-view
[Sysname] snmp-agent group v3 testGroup privacy
[Sysname] snmp-agent usm-user v3 testUser testGroup authentication-mode md5 authkey
privacy-mode des56 prikey
Set the SNMP version on the NMS to SNMPv3
Fill in the user name testUser,
Set the authentication protocol to MD5
Set the authentication password to authkey
Set the privacy protocol to DES
Set the privacy password to prikey
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