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/cfg/sys/ssnmp/snmpv3/access
View-based Access Control Model Configuration Menu
The View-based Access Control Model defines a set of services that an application can use for checking access rights of the user. Access control is needed when the user has to process SNMP retrieval or modification requests from an SNMP entity.
 
[SNMPv3 vacmAccess 1 Menu]
name - Set group name
prefix - Set content prefix
model - Set security model
level - Set minimum level of security
match - Set prefix only or exact match
rview - Set read view index
wview - Set write view index
nview - Set notify view index
del - Delete vacmAccess entry
cur - Display current vacmAccess configuration
 
View-based Access Control Model Menu Options (/cfg/sys/ssnmp/snmpv3/access) 
Command Syntax and Usage
name <32 character name>
 
Defines the group name.
prefix <32 character name>
 
Defines the context name. An SNMP context is a collection of management information that an SNMP entity can access. An SNMP entity has access to many contexts. For more information on naming the management information, see RFC 2571, the SNMP Architecture document. The View-based Access Control Model defines a table that lists the locally available contexts by contextName.
model usm|snmpv1|snmpv2
 
Selects the security model to be used.
level noAuthNoPriv|authNoPriv|authPriv
 
Defines the minimum level of security required to gain access rights.
Values:
*noAuthNoPriv — The SNMP message is sent without authentication and without using a privacy protocol.
*authNoPriv — The SNMP message is sent with authentication but without using a privacy protocol.
*authPriv — The SNMP message is sent to both with authentication and using a privacy protocol.
match exact|prefix
 
Values:
*exact — All the rows whose contextName exactly matches the prefix are selected.
*prefix — All the rows where the starting octets of the contextName exactly match the prefix are selected.
rview <32 character view name>
 
This is a 32-character long read view name that lets you read access to a particular MIB view.
If the value is empty, or if there is no active MIB view having this value, no access is granted.
wview <32 character view name>
 
This is a 32-character long write view name that lets you write access to the MIB view.
If the value is empty, or if there is no active MIB view having this value, no access is granted.
nview <32 character view name>
 
This is a 32 -character long notify view name that lets you notify access to the MIB view.
del
 
Deletes the View-based Access Control entry.
cur
 
Displays the View-based Access Control configuration.