What the heck other SNMPvs are there?
1.20.04.01 For a comprehensive list see http://www.simple-times.org/pub/simple-times/issues/5-1.html 1.20.04.02 Unfortunately, many people are confused about the SNMP protocol versions, which are: SNMPv1 – a standard and widely used SNMPv2p – party based, now obsolete (not used) SNMPv2c – community based, “expermental”, but has usage SNMPv2u – user based, experimental and not used SNMPv3 with USM – standards track, trying to get traction In SNMPv1, there was no standards-track mechanism defined that specified where to send traps, so every vendor defined their own approach. The SNMPv3 framework documents include mechanisms that can also be used in SNMPv1 and SNMPv2c. They are very complicated, but do work in specifying the targets for traps in SNMPv1 and traps and informs in SNMPv2c and SNMPv3. David T. Perkins 1.20.04.03 My advice would be to make SNMPv1 the first priority and SNMPv3 the second. I would not bother to implement SNMPv2c unless it came for free with the agent toolkit. Mik
