Tutorial Introduction

The configuration of an SNMPv3 environment is a nontrivial operation. It has many pitfalls which even experienced System Administrators can fall into.

It is vital that the configuration information be consistent between all communicating systems. If an authorization protocol or it’s password is incorrectly entered then that station will not communicate.

To achieve this coherence it would be best to have the network’s System Administrator build the configuration file (the <filename>.XNV file) and copy it to the target machine. At the very least the person doing the install should have a list of the settings used by the System Administrator.

When using the Control Pannel Applet which comes with NuDesign’s v3 Agent Service the analogue of the .XNV file is stored in the system’s registry. If this is the case the data can be extracted from the registry key "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\NDSnmpAgent" into a .REG file. That file can be used to transport configuration data to other machines.