SNMP-Based Flow Enrichment

Overview

Flow records generally include the index of ingress and egress interfaces by which the network traffic traversed the exporting device. NetObserv Flow will attempt to determine the names, and additional attributes, of these interfaces as learned by polling the exporting device using SNMP.

Configurations

EF_PROCESSOR_ENRICH_NETIF_SNMP_ENABLE

This setting determines whether SNMP polls will be used to gather these network interface attributes.

• Valid Values

  • true, false

• Default

  • false

EF_PROCESSOR_ENRICH_NETIF_SNMP_PORT

If SNMP polling of attributes is enabled (EF_PROCESSOR_ENRICH_NETIF_SNMP_ENABLE is true), this setting specifies the UDP port used for such polls.

• Default

  • 161 (the default SNMP port number)

EF_PROCESSOR_ENRICH_NETIF_SNMP_VERSION

If SNMP polling of attributes is enabled (EF_PROCESSOR_ENRICH_NETIF_SNMP_ENABLE is true), this setting specifies the SNMP version used for such polls.

All network devices which may be polled MUST support this version of SNMP.

• Valid Values

  • 1 - use SNMPv1

  • 2 - use SNMPv2c

  • 3 - use SNMPv3

• Default

  • 2

EF_PROCESSOR_ENRICH_NETIF_SNMP_COMMUNITIES

If SNMP polling of attributes is enabled (EF_PROCESSOR_ENRICH_NETIF_SNMP_ENABLE is true), this setting specifies the SNMP community strings that may be used for such polls. If a comma-separated list is specified, the collector will try each community in the order specified. Once a community returns a successful response, the collector will remember this community for future polls of the device.

All network devices which may be polled MUST be configured to all visibility of collected attributes using this community. It may be necessary to specify a view associated with this community. The documentation for your devices should contain the necessary information that you will need for determining the correct configuration steps.

• Example

  • public,private,whatever

• Default

  • public

EF_PROCESSOR_ENRICH_NETIF_SNMP_V3_USERNAME

The username used to authenticate with the device using SNMPv3.

• Default

  • ''

EF_PROCESSOR_ENRICH_NETIF_SNMP_V3_AUTHENTICATION_PROTOCOL

The authentication protocol used to authenticate the username with the device using SNMPv3.

• Valid Values

  • noauth, md5, sha, sha224, sha256, sha384, sha512

• Default

  • noauth

EF_PROCESSOR_ENRICH_NETIF_SNMP_V3_AUTHENTICATION_PASSPHRASE

The authentication passphrase used to authenticate the username with the device using SNMPv3.

• Default

  • ''

EF_PROCESSOR_ENRICH_NETIF_SNMP_V3_PRIVACY_PROTOCOL

The privacy protocol used to encrypt SNMPv3 traffic between the SNMP input and the device.

• Valid Values

  • nopriv, des, aes, aes192, aes256, aes192c, aes256c

• Default

  • nopriv

EF_PROCESSOR_ENRICH_NETIF_SNMP_V3_PRIVACY_PASSPHRASE

The privacy passphrase used to encrypt SNMPv3 traffic between the SNMP input and the device.

• Default

  • ''

EF_PROCESSOR_ENRICH_NETIF_SNMP_TIMEOUT

If SNMP polling of attributes is enabled (EF_PROCESSOR_ENRICH_NETIF_SNMP_ENABLE is true), this setting specifies the number of seconds to wait for the polled device to respond.

• Default

  • 2

EF_PROCESSOR_ENRICH_NETIF_SNMP_RETRIES

If SNMP polling of attributes is enabled (EF_PROCESSOR_ENRICH_NETIF_SNMP_ENABLE is true), this setting specifies the number of retries to attempt after the initial poll has timed out or otherwise fail. The timeout period will be doubled for each retry.

• Default

  • 1