Configuring the Group

After you have created users, v1, or v2 security names, you associate them with a group. A group is a set of security names belonging to a particular security model. A group defines the access rights for all users belonging to it. Access rights define what SNMP objects can be read, written to, or created. A group also defines what notifications a user is allowed to receive.

If you already have a group that is configured with all of the view and access permissions that you want to give a user, you can add the user to that group. If you want to give a user view and access permissions that no other groups have, or if you do not have any groups configured, create a group and add the user to it.

To configure the access privileges granted to a group, include the group statement at the [edit snmp v3 vacm security-to-group security-model (usm | v1 | v2c) security-name security-name] hierarchy level:

[edit snmp v3 vacm security-to-group security-model (usm | v1 | v2c) security-name     

    security-name]

group group-name;

group-name identifies a collection of SNMP security names that share the same access policy. For more information about groups, see Defining Access Privileges for an SNMP Group.