Question

You have just deployed SNMPv3 in your environment. Your manager asks you to make sure that your SNMP agents can only talk to the SNMP Manager. What would you configure on your SNMP agents to satisfy this request?
A. Routng Filter with the SNMP managers in it applied out-bound.
B. A SNMP View containing the SNMP managers.
C. A standard ACL containing the SNMP managers applied to the SNMP confguration.
D. A SNMP Group conatining the SNMP managers.

Answer 1

Answer:

Option D

Explanation:

SNMPV3 requires setup of users and groups for secured access authentication with SNMP Manager and the remote host enginID of the SNMPV3 is required.

Answer 2

Answer:

D. A SNMP group containing the SNMP managers.

Explanation:

The SNMP or simple network management protocol is an application layer protocol used for monitoring and information management purposes between network devices. It is part of the TCP/IP suite protocols.

The components of the SNMP are, the SNMP manager, SNMP agent, managed devices and management information database.

The SNMP manager queries and request for information from the SNMP agent, while the agents are programs that collects management information base from the managed devices which are the network devices.

For the SNMP agent to speak only to the managers, SNMP group containing the SNMP managers must be configured.