SNMP Trap Test Suite Data Sheet

Test Suite: SNMP Trap Test Suite

Direction: Server

SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) is used to manage network connected systems. It has simple set of operations that allow devices to be managed remotely. Network system consists of one or more managers and from devices that are remotely managed. Manager controls device by sending SNMP messages to SNMP Agent software which is situated in device.SNMP agents can send events to managers. This is used in situations when some condition is met in agent which agent should know. These event or notifications are sent as SNMP trap messages. This test suite is targeted to test processing of trap messages.

Used specifications

Specification Title
RFC1155 Structure and Identification of Management Information for TCP/IP-based Internets
RFC1157 Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
RFC1215 A Convention for Defining Traps for use with the SNMP
RFC1901 Introduction to Community-based SNMPv2
RFC2578 Structure of Management Information Version 2 (SMIv2)
RFC2819 Remote Network Monitoring Management Information Base
RFC3412 Message Processing and Dispatching for the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
RFC3414 User-based Security Model (USM) for version 3 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv3)
RFC3416 Version 2 of the Protocol Operations for the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
RFC3418 Management Information Base (MIB) for the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
RFC3430 Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) over Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) Transport Mapping
RFC3826 The Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) Cipher Algorithm in the SNMP User-based Security Model
RFC7860 HMAC-SHA-2 Authentication Protocols in User-Based Security Model (USM) for SNMPv3

Tool-specific information

Tested messages Notes Specifications
SNMPv1 Trap RFC1157
SNMPv2c Trap RFC3416
SNMPv2c InformRequest RFC3416
SNMPv3 Trap Support for MD5 / SHA authentication protocols and DES / AES privacy protocols. RFC3416
SNMPv3 InformRequest Support for MD5 / SHA authentication protocols and DES / AES privacy protocols. RFC3416