how to filter the open port 161

[jclakandili]

Is there a way to filter the open port 161 service snmp on cisco 2960 switch?

[Iliya Gatsev]

Hi,
My name is Iliya Gatsev from Cisco Technical Support Team.

The Catalyst series switches are not considered Small Business devices so I can suggest to post your question in the main Switching section to get to resolution quicker.

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Iliya Gatsev
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[sbhadrav@cisco.com · Accepted solution]

If you just want to turn off SNMP completely, then you can do a no snmp-server on the CLI. Then a show snmp would show %SNMP agent not enabled to verfiy this. Or you can also apply an extended ACL to deny protocol UDP, port 161 and 162, at the interface level such that SNMP access to the device is allowed only from the network management workstations.