SNMP engine ID

Hi,
You can run the snmp-agent local-engineid command to set an engine ID for the local SNMP agent for identification.

The SNMP engine ID uniquely identifies an SNMP agent in a management domain. The SNMP engine ID is an important component of the SNMP agent. It schedules and processes SNMP messages, and implements security authentication and access control. You can use the display snmp-agent local-engineid command to check the engine ID of the local SNMP entity.

When setting an engine ID, you need to comply with the following rules:

• The length of the octet strings varies. The first four octets are set to the binary equivalent of the agent, which is SNMP management private enterprise number and is assigned by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). The engine ID of Huawei devices is 2011 in decimal notation. The first digit is in binary format, and has a fixed value 1. Therefore, the engine ID in hexadecimal format is 800007DB.

• The device information can be configured manually. It is recommended that the IP address or MAC address of the device be used as the device information to uniquely identify the device.

For details, please refer to:https://support.huawei.com/hedex/hdx.do?docid=EDOC1000168680&id=snmp-agent_local-engineid&lang=en

Dear User,

To view the local SNMP engine ID, run the display snmp-agent local-engineid command.
To set the local SNMP engine ID, run the snmp-agent local-engineid engineid command. An SNMP engine ID on a network must be unique.
The value of engineid is a hexadecimal string of 10�?4 characters. It consists of an enterprise ID and device information. If you want to manually set an SNMP engine ID, follow these rules:
1. The first four bytes are the vendor's private engine ID allocated by Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). The engine ID of Huawei devices is 2011 in decimal notation. The first binary digit has a fixed value 1. Therefore, the engine ID in hexadecimal format is 800007DB.
2. The device information is configured manually. You are advised to use the IP address or MAC address of the switch as device information to uniquely identify the switch.

https://forum.huawei.com/enterprise/en/corpus-6148.html


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