In a test orchestration project based on iTest 9.3, I created an SNMP session for a device, of which I would like to pull performance parameters over SNMPv3.
Unlike as with snmpwalk (used on Ubuntu over WSL), I am unable to authenticate properly, since I always get an SNMP Error, indicating that either some credentials or, the community string is wrong.
However, I triple-checked all entered credentials and authentication settings but still keep getting an SNMP authentication error, when I try to run getValue command using the SNMP session.
My working snmpwalk example looks as follows:
$ snmpwalk -m +[name of the custom MIB module] -v3 -l authPriv -u [username] -a SHA512 -A [password] -x AES -X [key] -E [community string] [IP]:161 [MIB tree OID]
To reproduce the above (perfectly working) SNMPv3 authentication in the iTest SNMP session, I filled in the following authentication parameters in Edit Session Profile:
- agent device's IP address
- SNMP port = 161
- SNMP Version = Version 3
- username & auth pw
--- as well as under More >> Authentication (SNMPv3 only) ---
- V3 Context: = [community string]
- Security level = Authentication, privacy
- Authentication algorithm = SHA
- Privacy -> Password:= [key]
- AES-128 / -192 / -256 (not working with either of them)
I used Wireshark to analyze the UDP packets issued by the above snmpwalk command and compared them to the corresponding getValue SNMP packets issued using the iTest Session:
Interestingly enough, the packets' encoded authentication parameters (msgAuthenticationParameters) have a significant difference in terms of size, namely; In the snmpwalk case, these encoded parameters have a length of 48 B, while in the iTest case (for all selectable AES methods), the msgAuthenticationParameters are always only 12 B.
Does anybody have an idea, if I should correct anything in my session profile to get a working iTest SNMP session or, whether this potentially a bug in iTest 9.3?
