Sorry Kurt, I've actually never implemented SNMP before (I know, weird,
huh?)

However, the logical part of my brain was screaming at me that it was a
DUH! type of question... 




Joe Heaton

-----Original Message-----
From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2008 5:10 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Network monitoring with SNMP

On 4/29/08, Joe Heaton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> You guys don't use the default community strings with SNMP do you?  
> These should be changed to something unique, correct?

Um, the only word that comes to mind here is "duh".

Most implementations are still v1, which is completely plain text.
Next most common, from my limited reading, are v2c and then v3 - and
it's only with v3 that you get reasonable encryption, but staying away
from the defaults is still the only way to go.

Kurt

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