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SNMPv3 support is here!

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The SNMP v3 is now supported in all the Poseidon2 units. This is a major update that brings many advantages and improvements. The following text will explain...

SNMP protocol was originally developed for monitoring computer networks and networked technology. Most of LAN devices by HW group support SNMP protocol, anyway with 10 devices there have to be added 10 different IP adresses to the SNMP based software and LAN devices only.
Every user account on the SensDesk technology based portal support SNMP too (read only).

Thanks to this update, SNMP protocol can be used to read values even from GSM, LTE or NarrowBand (NB-IoT) devices. All values are provided with a unified MIB; there is no need to implement different MIBs for different device types.

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All sensor's data from your user account on the SensDesk.com (SensDesk technology based portal) are available for some time in the XML format that can be periodically downloaded over http or https (XML Application Note is here).
However, the XML format is not very suitable for IT environments that need quick and brief responses. To address this, a SNMP agent feature was added. This request-response protocol runs on top of UDP, It allows targeted queries for one specific value, without downloading lots of unneeded data.

Core information:
The SNMP implementation in the portal supports SNMPv1 and/or SNMPv3 over UDP.
All settings can be configured at the user’s login page, http://sensdesk.com/user/.
SNMP Server Address is portal address (ex.: Sensdesk.com), SNMP port is 1161.

Results of SNMP Walk request with Paessler SNMP tester

Showing all sensors data from the portal user account. The user / Team account is identified with using the Community.
SNMPv1 example of Paessler SNMP tester Walk command.

Results of SNMP Walk request with iReasoning MIB Browser

Showing all sensors data from the portal user account. The user / Team account is identified with using the Community.

SNMPv1 example of iReasoning SNMP tester Walk command.

How to configurate SNMP on the SensDesk.com portal:

Every user can create two SNMP accounts. SNMP version and access permissions can be configured separately for each account. (At this moment, only read access is allowed.)
The community for SNMPv1 or the user name for SNMPv3 are randomly generated, and are unique within the whole portal. It is possible to regenerate them on saving.

Every user can create two SNMP accounts.