Glossary: Monitoring Tools and the Identity Life Cycle

SNMPv3

Also written: SNMP version 3

The secure version of SNMP, which identifies the manager by a username and password checked on every message instead of a plain-text community string. Set to the authPriv level, it both authenticates each message with a hash such as SHA-256 and encrypts it with AES, so it is the recommended choice for monitoring device health.