https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Risk-of-Disabling-SNMP/m-p/452111#M43535 <P>We have enabled SNMP on all of our NetApp clusters over the years. Now I would like to disable it as I'm aware it is considered insecure. Is there any loss of functionality in the following NetApp tools / features if I disable it? Is there any way to easily determine if it's being used in some way?</P><P>&nbsp;</P><UL><LI>Active IQ</LI><LI>Active IQ Unified Manager (in particular the EMS Events functionality)</LI><LI>OnTAP Tools</LI><LI>SnapCenter</LI><LI>SnapCenter Plug-In for VMware</LI><LI>PowerShell Toolkit</LI></UL> Wed, 04 Jun 2025 09:39:05 GMT TMADOCTHOMAS 2025-06-04T09:39:05Z https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Risk-of-Disabling-SNMP/m-p/452111#M43535 <P>We have enabled SNMP on all of our NetApp clusters over the years. Now I would like to disable it as I'm aware it is considered insecure. Is there any loss of functionality in the following NetApp tools / features if I disable it? Is there any way to easily determine if it's being used in some way?</P><P>&nbsp;</P><UL><LI>Active IQ</LI><LI>Active IQ Unified Manager (in particular the EMS Events functionality)</LI><LI>OnTAP Tools</LI><LI>SnapCenter</LI><LI>SnapCenter Plug-In for VMware</LI><LI>PowerShell Toolkit</LI></UL> Wed, 04 Jun 2025 09:39:05 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Risk-of-Disabling-SNMP/m-p/452111#M43535 TMADOCTHOMAS 2025-06-04T09:39:05Z https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Risk-of-Disabling-SNMP/m-p/452524#M43595 <P>Alternatively, we could switch to SNMPv3 which of course is more secure, but I'm not sure what effect that transition would have. Any ideas out there?&nbsp;</P> Fri, 03 May 2024 20:01:25 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Risk-of-Disabling-SNMP/m-p/452524#M43595 TMADOCTHOMAS 2024-05-03T20:01:25Z