This field is used to specify the access allowed for an authorized NMS when Manager Validation is performed. If the IP address for the NMS sending an SNMP message is on the list of allowed managers, this option along with the Community Name access determine the type of access allowed for the that manager.

When ever a new Security Manager is added or an existing Security Manager's IP Address is modified, the newSecurityMgrAccess object is set to the default value of read (1). If the index for this object is not in the existing table and if there is room in the table then the index will be used to create a new Security Manager and will be given the requested access level. In addition changing an existing access permission to noAccess invalidates the corresponding row of this table. It is upto the implementation to decide whether to actually remove this entry from the table or not.

read (1) ==> no telnet access and snmp read only access readWrite (2) ==> no telnet access and snmp read-write access noAccess (3) ==> no telnet access and no snmp read-write access telnetNoAccess (4) ==> telnet access and no snmp access telnetRead (5) ==> telnet access and snmp read only access telnetReadWrite (6) ==> telnet access and snmp read-write access.