SNMP provides a standardized framework and a common language for monitoring and managing devices in a network. The SNMP framework consists of three parts:

In SNMP, administration groups are known as communities. SNMP communities consist of one agent and one or more SNMP managers. You can assign groups of hosts to SNMP communities for limited security checking of agents and management systems or for administrative purposes. Defining communities provides security by allowing only management systems and agents within the same community to communicate.

A host can belong to multiple communities at the same time, but an agent does not accept a request from a management system outside its list of acceptable community names.

SNMP access rights are organized by groups. Each group is defined with three accesses: read access, write access, and notification access. Each access can be enabled or disabled within each group.

The SNMP v3 security level determines if an SNMP message needs to be protected from disclosure and if the message needs to be authenticated. The security levels are:

SNMP is defined in RFCs 3411-3418.

Use the below commands to verify the SNMP configuration: