Overview of SNMPv3
SNMP Version 3 is the current version of the Simple Network Management Protocol. This version was ratified as a Draft Standard in March of 1999.
- RFC 2570: Introduction to Version 3 of the Internet-standard Network Management Framework, Informational, April 1999
- RFC 2571: An Architecture for Describing SNMP Management Frameworks, Draft Standard, April 1999
- RFC 2572: Message Processing and Dispatching for the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), Draft Standard, April 1999
- RFC 2573: SNMP Applications, Draft Standard, April 1999
- RFC 2574: User-based Security Model (USM) for version 3 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv3), Draft Standard, April 1999
- RFC 2575: View-based Access Control Model (VACM) for the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), Draft Standard, April 1999
- RFC 2576: Coexistence between Version 1, Version 2, and Version 3 of the Internet-standard Network Management Framework, Proposed Standard, March 2000
These documents reuse definitions from the following SNMPv2 specifications:
- RFC 1905: Protocol Operations for Version 2 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2), Draft Standard
- RFC 1906: Transport Mappings for Version 2 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2), Draft Standard
- RFC 1907: Management Information Base for Version 2 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2), Draft Standard