Creating SNMPv3 User Profiles
REQUIREMENTS: |
Make sure you meet the following conditions before beginning this procedure: |
• Default user templates currently exist on this Application Server. To verify that they exist, perform the list command. ( click HERE). The SNMPv3 commissioning procedure has already been performed once for this Application Server ( click HERE). |
• You have logged into your Application Server with a PuTTY secure shell and have changed directories to iControl’s snmpd directory ( click HERE). |
• [RECOMMENDED]: You are performing this procedure as a task within the context of an approved workflow ( click HERE). |
1. In your PuTTY secure shell, create a new user profile:
./usersnmpv3 create
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System response after create command
2. Specify the user template to clone from.
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Specifying user template from which to clone new user
3. Specify the name you would like to assign to the new user profile.
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Specifying a name for a new user profile
4. Change the new user profile’s authentication and privacy passwords by performing the following sub-steps:
a) Type:
./usersnmpv3 password
System Response: The system prompts you for the name of the new user profile.
b) Type the new user profile name.
System Response: The system prompts you for the existing authorization password.
c) Type the existing authentication password.
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System Response: The system prompts you for the user security level.
d) Type the number corresponding to the security level of this user.
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System Response: The system prompts you for the user’s privacy password.
e) Type the user’s privacy password (if applicable).
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System Response: The system prompts you for the type of password change.
f) Type the number corresponding to the type of password change you would like to do.
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System Response: The system prompts you for a new authentication password.
g) Type the new authentication password.
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System Response: The system prompts you for a new privacy password.
h) Type the new privacy password.
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System Response: If the password change operation is successful, the system returns a confirmation message.