Also, a couple of more items .... don't use the default community strings of "public" and "private." Plus implement an ACL on each network device that will limit SNMP access for the specific IP address of the Solarwinds server.

I have several Cisco devices and
I recently purchased Solarwinds NPM. This software requires that SNMP
be enable in order to mointor network devices and traffic.
Questions:
if the snmp is enabled is enalbed on my Cisco equiptment is there any
secuirty flaws that could give remote users access or infomations that
could casues a security breach.

Hi,

The best way is to have a standard community string configured between the devices and server with version 3 selected which is encrypted also to have high level of security and with cisco switches you can also have acl with sepecifc server can poll the switch with configured read only community string.

Hope to Help !!

Ganesh.H

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