SNMP v3 - Error in Authentication password

[misd.network.support]

Hi,

Im trying to configure snmp v3 on a 2960 switch (IOS 12.2(44)SE. I use the following commands:

snmp-server group mygroup v3 priv

snmp-server user myuser mygroup v3 encrypted auth sha myauthpass priv aes 128 myprivpass

I then get the error message:

%Error in Authentication password

Any ideas?

Cheers,

Ben

[David Stanford]

Looks like you need to specify a read or write view

Syntax for the group name :

snmp-server group [groupname {v1 | v2c | v3{auth | noauth | priv}}]

[read readview] [write writeview] [notify notifyview] [access

access-list]

snmp-server user username [groupname remote ip-address [udp-port port]

{v1 | v2c | v3 [encrypted] [auth {md5 | sha} auth-password [priv des56

priv password]] [access access-list]

[misd.network.support]

Thanks for the reply.

As I understand the syntax in [] is optional. I tried specifying a readonly view by changing my group command to:

snmp-server group mygroup v3 priv read readonly

I still get the same error message. Interestingly if I drop the optional "encrypted" keyword from the snmp-server user command, it does indeed create the user. The user doesn't appear in the config - but a show snmp user does list it.

Cheers,

Ben

[Joe Clarke · Accepted solution]

When you specify the "encrypted" keyword, you need to specify the password in an encrypted string. It doesn't look like you want this. Try:

snmp-server user myuser mygroup v3 auth sha myauthpass priv aes 128 myprivpass