{"draft":"draft-ietf-opsawg-snmp-engineid-discovery-03","doc_id":"RFC5343","title":"Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) Context EngineID Discovery","authors":["J. Schoenwaelder"],"format":["ASCII","HTML"],"page_count":"9","pub_status":"PROPOSED STANDARD","status":"INTERNET STANDARD","source":"Operations and Management Area Working Group","abstract":"The Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) version three (SNMPv3)\r\nrequires that an application know the identifier (snmpEngineID) of\r\nthe remote SNMP protocol engine in order to retrieve or manipulate\r\nobjects maintained on the remote SNMP entity.\r\n\r\nThis document introduces a well-known localEngineID and a discovery\r\nmechanism that can be used to learn the snmpEngineID of a remote SNMP\r\nprotocol engine.  The proposed mechanism is independent of the\r\nfeatures provided by SNMP security models and may also be used by\r\nother protocol interfaces providing access to managed objects.\r\n\r\nThis document updates RFC 3411.  [STANDARDS-TRACK]","pub_date":"September 2008","keywords":["snmpv3","snmpengineid","localengineid"],"obsoletes":[],"obsoleted_by":[],"updates":["RFC3411"],"updated_by":[],"see_also":["STD0078"],"doi":"10.17487\/RFC5343","errata_url":null}