We have been seeing a pronounced trend of customers making the transition to SNMP over the past year. Most of the feedback we get is that the transition was a lot easier that the customer had predicted. Consider the benefits SNMPv3 give you over SNMP v2c.
- Encrypted Communications - no plain text community strings.
- User Level Access Control - specific message types according to requesting device.
- View Based Access Control - allow access to a part of a MIB rather than all or none.
Rolling out SNMP v3 should be accomplished is a two step plan:
- Place the new SNNP v3 configuration on one device ant test. This will typically be done in a lab environment.
- Roll-out the configuration to production devices using a configuration management tool.
Here are a couple of reference papers to get you started.
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios/12_0t/12_0t3/feature/guide/Snmp3.html
http://www.solarwinds.com/documentation/Orion/docs/Implementing_SNMPv3r1.pdf
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