Dell PowerVault ME5 Series Administrator's Guide

SNMPv3 user options

The following options are available to SNMPv3:

• Username—A username is case sensitive and can have a maximum of 29 bytes. The name cannot already exist in the system, include spaces, or include any of the following: " , < \
• Password—A password is case sensitive and can have from 8 to 32 printable characters. If the password contains only ASCII characters, it must contain at least one uppercase character, one lowercase character, one numeric character, and one non-alphanumeric character. A password can include UTF-8 characters except for the following: a space or " ' , < > \
• Authentication Type—Select whether to use MD5 or SHA (SHA-1) authentication, or no authentication. If authentication is enabled, the password set in the Password and Confirm Password fields must include a minimum of 8 characters and follow the other SNMPv3 privacy password rules.
• Privacy Type—Select whether to use DES or AES encryption, or no encryption. To use encryption you must also set a privacy password and enable authentication.
• Privacy Password—If the privacy type is set to use encryption, specify an encryption password. This password is case sensitive and can have from 8 to 32 printable characters. If the password contains only ASCII characters, then it must contain at least one uppercase character, one lowercase character, one numeric character, and one non-alphabetic character. A password can include UTF-8 characters except for the following: a space or " ' , < > \
• Trap Host Address—Specify the network address of the host system that will receive SNMP traps. The value can be an IPv4 address, IPv6 address, or FQDN.