[ixpmanager] SNMPV3

[Martin J. Levy]

Barry,

Hopefully you'll accept a PR if Kyle gets a clean fix for this edited up. :)

Martin

> On Mar 22, 2017, at 11:25 AM, Barry O'Donovan <barry.odonovan at inex.ie> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> Kyle Spencer wrote:
>> We are working to deploy IXP Manager V4 and wish to have it automate
>> our MRTGs. Our switches are currently configured to use SNMPv3, so
>> it's good to know that this can work if we edit the template.
> 
> Yip, that would work the two caveats are:
> 
> 1) editing the template puts you outside of the IXP Manager prime code
> base so you'd need to keep an eye on changes to the default template for
> new features. E.g. we recently added graphing of broadcast traffic. In
> reality, these templates change very little.
> 
> 2) SNMPv2 will still be required to add a switch within IXP Manager.
> Some other features that are not essential such as live port states will
> also not work without v2.
> 
> Usually v2 and v3 can exist side by side on many switches iirc.
> 
> - Barry
> 
> 
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