WatchTower® SNMPv3 Monitoring

XuiS understands the importance of network health and security. WatchTower® offers the option to deploy the full power of the latest iteration of the SNMP standard, SNMPv3, to securely monitor and manage all the platforms, operations systems, and devices in your network-servers, workstations, routers, switches, appliances, etc.

SNMPv3 provides secured network communication to protect sensitive data messages. If you are in financial services, have an online business or are a government agency - WatchTower with SNMPv3 provides the security, flexibility, rapid implementation and value your monitoring efforts demand.

Authentication — SNMPv3 supports a user authentication scheme far superior to that of SNMPv1 and v2; both of which are limited to the use of unencrypted, clear text passwords (community strings). SNMPv3 provides user authentication using secret shared keys, as well as message integrity checking through MD5 and SHA hashing algorithms.

Privacy — SNMPv3 entities are capable of encrypting all transmissions. Encrypted message processing can be configured at the user level and supports most of the current IETF SNMP cryptographic standards, including AES and CBC-DES. Users may request messages to be authenticated, authenticated and encrypted, or neither.

Remote configuration — Addressing the long-standing need for secure set operations over real-world networks, SNMPv3 allows for secure, remote modification of configuration entries.

Access control — The view-based access control (VACM) model, present in previous versions but now coupled with the SNMPv3 user-based security model (USM), allows for flexible and granular access control.

WatchTower SNMPv3 Walk Utility allows users to browse all available SNMP objects from any SNMP enabled remote agent. WatchTower's built in MIB Compiler allows for translation of ASN.1 values to readable Object Identifier Descriptions such as hosts.

WatchTower’s Node Definition page displaying available SNMP v 3 options for specific IP addresses and IP address ranges.

SNMPv3 Benefits Overview:

• Provides a standards-based approach to secure monitoring
• Ensures secure transactions through authentication, transport layer encryption, and hashed message payloads
• Assures that the content of each received message is protected from disclosure and is sent from a valid origin
• Protects message payloads from modification of information, masquerade security threats, and "man-in-the-middle" attacks
• Simplifies management by allowing the application of complex, granular access control parameters to each request
• Requires no changes to the standard SNMP configuration
• Enables organizations to stay in compliance with federal security standards for cryptography-related applications