NMIS supports using SNMPv3 for securing the collection of sensitive network information. This is especially important from core switches and routers which if compromised could have a considerable business impact. This configuration note does not include details about the SNMPv3 protocol, and assumes that people are wanting to use the authPriv (Authentication and Privilege) mode which is the most secure.
NOTE: From NMIS 9.5.2, SHA256 and AES256 support is enabled by the installer (if selected)
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IMPORTANT NOTE ON 256 BIT ENCRYPTION PROTOCOL SUPPORT
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Updating NMIS9 to support SHA256 and AES256 including Cisco variants
From NMIS 9.5.2, SHA256 and AES256 support is enabled by the installer (if selected and passes Net::SNMP v6 requirements), so the instructions below are not required.
The history of encryption in SNMPv3 is long and winding and possibly interesting to some people, the reality is that the only consistency with SNMPv3 implementations is the inconsistency in the implementations by different vendors and projects. Frequently combinations of protocols are not supported (or do not work), so you need to find the matching combinations.
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| NMIS9 name | Name | OID | Notes |
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| des | usmDESPrivProtocol | 1.3.6.1.6.3.10.1.2.1 | RFC3411 |
| 3des | usm3DESPrivProtocol | 1.3.6.1.4.1.14832.1 | RFC3411 |
| aes (or aes128) | usmAESCfb128PrivProtocol | 1.3.6.1.4.1.14832.2 | Blumenthal implementation of SNMPv3 |
| aes192 | usmAESCfb192PrivProtocol | 1.3.6.1.4.1.14832.3 | Blumenthal implementation of SNMPv3 |
| aes256 | usmAESCfb256PrivProtocol | 1.3.6.1.4.1.14832.4 | Blumenthal implementation of SNMPv3 |
| aes192c | cusmAESCfb192PrivProtocol | 1.3.6.1.4.1.9.12.6.1.1 | Cisco implementation of SNMPv3 AES192 |
| aes256c | cusmAESCfb256PrivProtocol | 1.3.6.1.4.1.9.12.6.1.2 | Cisco implementation of SNMPv3 AES256 |
| aes192c2 | usmAES192Cisco2PrivProtocol | 1.3.6.1.4.1.9.12.6.1.101 | A mysterious version 2 of the Cisco implementation, possibly related to pysnmp |
| aes256c2 | usmAES256Cisco2PrivProtocol | 1.3.6.1.4.1.9.12.6.1.102 | A mysterious version 2 of the Cisco implementation, possibly related to pysnmp |
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Copy the shipped USM.pm from the contrib folder and replace the Net::SNMP v6.0.1 version.
NOTE: NMIS 9.5.2 will place the USM.pm file into the NMIS lib structure and does not change lib files outside of the nmis9 directory
On RedHat 8 based systems (including our CentOS Virtual Machine)
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Many Cisco devices will support SHA256 but only AES128 (which given the entropy is reasonable "AES-128 would take about 2.61*10^12 years to crack" https://www.ubiqsecurity.com/128bit-or-256bit-encryption-which-to-use/).
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| Vendor / Operating System | SHA | AES | NMIS Considerations |
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| Cisco IOS | SHA1 | AES256 | aes256c needs to be configured as the entry.configuration.privprotocol value |
| SHA1 | AES192 | aes192c needs to be configured as the entry.configuration.privprotocol value | |
| SHA1 | AES128 | ||
| Cisco NX-OS | SHA1 | AES128 | |
| SHA256 | AES128 | ||
| Fortinet | SHA1 | AES | |
| SHA224 | AES256 Cisco | sha224 needs to be configured as the entry.configuration.authprotocol value AND aes256c needs to be configured as the entry.configuration.privprotocol value | |
| SHA256 | AES256 Cisco | sha256 needs to be configured as the entry.configuration.authprotocol value AND aes256c needs to be configured as the entry.configuration.privprotocol value | |
| SHA384 | AES256 Cisco | sha384 needs to be configured as the entry.configuration.authprotocol value AND aes256c needs to be configured as the entry.configuration.privprotocol value | |
| SHA512 | AES256 Cisco | sha512 needs to be configured as the entry.configuration.authprotocol value AND aes256c needs to be configured as the entry.configuration.privprotocol value | |
| Palo Alto | SHA1 | AES128 | |
| SHA224 | AES128 | ||
| SHA256 | AES128 | ||
| SHA384 | AES128 | ||
| SHA224 | AES192 | aes192c needs to be configured as the entry.configuration.privprotocol value | |
| SHA256 | AES192 | aes192c needs to be configured as the entry.configuration.privprotocol value | |
| SHA256 | AES256 | aes256c needs to be configured as the entry.configuration.privprotocol value | |
| SHA384 | AES192 | aes192c needs to be configured as the entry.configuration.privprotocol value | |
| SHA384 | AES256 | aes256c needs to be configured as the entry.configuration.privprotocol value | |
| NET-SNMP (Tested on v5.8 with Ubuntu 20.04) | SHA512 | AES128 | sha512 needs to be configured as the entry.configuration.authprotocol value |
| HUAWEI | SHA256 | AES256 | aes256c needs to be configured as the entry.configuration.privprotocol value |
You may notice that when configuring SNMPv3 on a (for example) Cisco IOS device that there is not an explicit AES192C/AES256C in the command, rather it is needed to be defined as AES 192 and/or AES 256.
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