CACTI Basic settings-Security

CACTIIt takes a long time, but it is a lot of trouble for new users to configure CACTI. This article will learn about the basic settings of CACTI.SecurityArticle!

Security

Some may say that after the SNMP service is enabled, the servers and devices become insecure. In fact, such remarks may remain in views on SNMP many years ago. In fact, SNMP is not a defect, but its default query community-"public ". Irresponsible administrators always leave backdoors to hackers. This is not a software error. The current SNMP Protocol version is SNMP3. Before this version is changed, only community is used for query. Instead, the user name and password are used for verification, which greatly improves the security of SNMP. Even if you do not use the SNMP3 version, you can restrict the network segments that can access the SNMP service in the configuration file.

Of course, if you are not at ease with SNMP, You can bind the SNMP service on the Intranet IP address. No Intranet IP address? Firewall and ACL will always be used!

CACTI Basic settings are very important, but security issues cannot be ignored!