Users Property

Description

Gets a dictionary of User objects used to authenticate and decrypt received SNMPv3 packets.

Property type

Read-only property

Syntax

Visual Basic
Public Property Users As UserMap

Return Value

Dictionary of User objects indexed by name.

Remarks

The configured Users of the local authoritative engine (Manager.AuthoritativeEngine.Users or Agent.AuthoritativeEngine.Users) should be initialized before Agent.Start or Manager.Start is used. Agents are authoritative when responding to Manager requests and sending traps. Managers are authoritative when responding to Inform requests.

User credentials are assigned to SnmpMessage.Security.User when sending an SNMPv3 request to an SNMP manager. A special case is the authentication and decryption of traps from agents that have not been queried, so their EngineId is not known. In this case a User must be initialized with Id and credentials, and added to Manager.TrapUsers.