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Performing SNMP enumeration

Performing SNMP enumeration

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Performing SNMP enumeration

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- SNMP is Simple Network Management Protocol. It's been around for a long time and it is used to manage and monitor devices on the network, commonly implemented in routers and switches. However, you can also see it on servers and hosts on the network. There is a concept called a manager that will handle polling and trap reception. The manager is going to query or poll a system for information, and a system could send an SNMP trap back to a manager saying, hey, proactively this thing occurred. An agent is something that is installed on devices on the network. If you are talking to SNMP on a system, it has an agent installed because you're talking to that agent in order to query it or poll it for information. There are commonly two passwords, quote unquote, passwords. These are what are called community strings. The read-only one is commonly configured as public and read-write is commonly configured as private. Now I say commonly simply because that's what people do when they're doing…

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