Compatibility

NuDesign SNMPv3 Agent Service for Windows / Linux Compatibility Information

NuDesign SNMPv3 Agent Service for Windows operates under 32bit or 64bit versions of the following Windows products:

  • Servers: Server 2003, Server 2003R2, Server 2008, Server 2008R2, Server 2012, Server 2012R2, Server 2016, Server 2019 and Server 2022.
  • Workstations: XP, Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8/8.1, Windows 10 and Windows 11.

NuDesign SNMPv3 Agent Service for Linux (SNMP daemon) supports these primary families of Linux distributions:

  • Fedora, RHEL, Debian, Ubuntu & OpenSUSE, 64bit versions.

Additionally, both Services are compatible with the following RFCs:

  • RFC 1157, Simple Network Management Protocol
  • RFC 1213, Management Information Base for Network Management of TCP/IP-based internets: MIB-II
  • RFC 2741, Agent Extensibility (AgentX) Protocol Version 1
  • RFC 2790, Host Resources MIB
  • RFC 2863, The Interfaces Group MIB (IF)
  • RFC 3410, Introduction and Applicability Statements for Internet Standard Management Framework
  • RFC 3411, An Architecture for Describing SNMP Management Frameworks
  • RFC 3412, Message Processing and Dispatching
  • RFC 3413, SNMP Applications
  • RFC 3414, User-based Security Model (USM)
  • RFC 3415, View-based Access Control Model (VACM)
  • RFC 3416, Version 2 of SNMP Protocol Operations
  • RFC 3417, Transport Mappings
  • RFC 3584, Coexistence between Version 1, Version 2, and Version 3 of the Internet-standard Network Management Framework
  • RFC 3826, The Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) Cipher Algorithm in the SNMP User-based Security Model
  • RFC 4113, Management Information Base for the User Datagram Protocol (UDP)
  • RFC 4292, IP Forwarding Table MIB (IP-FORWARD)
  • RFC 4293, Management Information Base for the Internet Protocol (IP)
  • RFC 7860, HMAC-SHA-2 Authentication Protocols in User-Based Security Model (USM) for SNMPv3

Additionally, the products adopts several industry conventions based on “internet drafts”, to provide enhanced levels of privacy. These are:

  • <draft-reeder-snmpv3-usm-3desede-00> Extension to the User-Based Security Model (USM) to Support Triple-DES EDE in “Outside” CBC Mode.
  • <draft-blumenthal-aes-usm-04> The Aes Cipher Algorithm in the SNMP’s User-based Security Model. This adds CFB128-AES-192 and CFB128- AES-256. These are in addition CFB128-AES-128 provided for in RFC 3826.