network management
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... SNMP) specification [1]
allows for the protection of network management operations by a
variety of security protocols. The SNMP ...
... USE OF THE TRIVIAL PROTOCOL ALONE DOES NOT CONSTITUTE SECURE
NETWORK MANAGEMENT. THEREFORE, A NETWORK MANAGEMENT SYSTEM THAT
IMPLEMENTS ONLY THE TRIVIAL PROTOCOL IS NOT CONFORMANT TO THIS
SPECIFICATION.
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... Several of the classical threats to network protocols are applicable
to the network management problem and therefore would be applicable
to any SNMP security protocol ...
... SNMP security protocol. Other threats are not applicable to
the network management problem. This section discusses principal
threats, secondary threats, and threats which are of lesser
...
... indistinguishable from the type of network failures with which any
viable network management protocol must cope as a matter of
course.
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... SNMP protocol
entity is an actual process which performs network management
operations by generating and/or responding to SNMP protocol messages ...
... Case, J., M. Fedor, M. Schoffstall, and J. Davin, The Simple Network Management Protocol", RFC 1157hist, University of Tennessee at Knoxville, Performance Systems International, Performance ...