SNMP engineID in Dell EMC Networking N Series

Summary: What is SNMP engineID? and how to configure/delete it? Dell EMC Networking N Series

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Symptoms



What is SNMP engineID?

  • SNMP engineID is used to manage SNMP module, and uniquely identifies SNMP entity in a management domain.
  • The EngineID is only used by SNMPv3 entities in order to identify them uniquely.
  • Conflicts can occur if two SNMP entities have duplicate EngineID's.
  • When the engine ID is changed, all configured users and groups are erased.
  • The EngineID is used to generate the key for authenticated messages.
  • By default, the Engine ID is based on the MAC address of the device.
  • Local EngineID is hexadecimal string.



Commands used 

Switch CLI commands

Description

Console#configure

To enter switch configuration mode

Console(config)#SNMP-server engineID local (EngineID)

To configure a user defined SNMP engineID

Console(config)#no SNMP-server engineID local

To remove the user defined SNMP engineID

Console#show SNMP-server engineID

To view the SNMP-server engineID



Sample configuration: 

  • To check SNMP-server engineID:

            Console#show SNMP engineID
             Local SNMP engineID : 800002a203f48edddd71c5                
             Local SNMP engine boot count: 0   
 

SLN320943_en_US__1icon This is a default EngineID automatically created based on the mac address of the switch.

  •   To  configure user-defined SNMP-server engineID

              Console#configure
               Console(config)#SNMP-server engineID local 10000202aabbccddeeff     

SLN320943_en_US__1icon EngineID is a hexadecimal string.

  •   To verify if the engineID is changed to user-defined.

              Console#show SNMP engineID
               Local SNMP engineID : 10000202aabbccddeeff
               Local SNMP engine boot count: 0

  •   To remove user defined SNMP EngineID

      Console#configure 
      Console(config)#no SNMP-server engineID local (Removes the configured engineID and takes the default value)

              Console#show SNMP engineID          
              Local SNMP engineID : 800002a203f48edddd71c5
              Local SNMP engine boot count: 0



       
 

 

 

Affected Products

PowerSwitch N1500 Series, PowerSwitch N2000 Series, PowerSwitch N2100 Series, PowerSwitch N3000 Series, Dell EMC PowerSwitch N3000E-ON Series, Dell EMC PowerSwitch N3100 Series, PowerSwitch N4000 Series
Article Properties
Article Number: 000133597
Article Type: Solution
Last Modified: 05 Jun 2025
Version:  5
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