SNMP-USER-BASED-SM-MIB :: usmStatsUnsupportedSecLevels

MIB Reference — IPNetwork Monitor · Updated September 14, 2026

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usmStatsUnsupportedSecLevels

Module: SNMP-USER-BASED-SM-MIB

OID (symbolic): SNMP-USER-BASED-SM-MIB::usmStatsUnsupportedSecLevels

OID (numeric): 1.3.6.1.6.3.15.1.1.1

Node type: OBJECT-TYPE

Type: Counter32

Access: read-only

Description: The total number of packets received by the SNMP engine which were dropped because they requested a securityLevel that was unknown to the SNMP engine or otherwise unavailable.

What is usmStatsUnsupportedSecLevels?

This Counter32 tallies SNMP packets the agent's engine has dropped solely because they requested a securityLevel - noAuthNoPriv, authNoPriv, or authPriv - that the engine did not recognize or could not provide for that user. It flags SNMPv3 clients whose security-level setting doesn't match how the target user was actually provisioned in the local usmUserTable, such as a manager demanding authPriv against a user configured without a privacy protocol. For example, if a monitoring tool is set to authPriv but the device's SNMPv3 user only has authNoPriv configured, every poll increments this counter and the poll itself fails.

Examples

Walk all instances (SNMPv2c):

snmpwalk -v2c -c public <target> 1.3.6.1.6.3.15.1.1.1
snmpwalk -v2c -c public <target> SNMP-USER-BASED-SM-MIB::usmStatsUnsupportedSecLevels

Get a specific instance (index 1):

snmpget -v2c -c public <target> 1.3.6.1.6.3.15.1.1.1.1
snmpget -v2c -c public <target> SNMP-USER-BASED-SM-MIB::usmStatsUnsupportedSecLevels.1

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OID Breakdown

Upper-level ancestors (6 from the standard OID tree / other modules)
Numeric OIDNameModule
1isoLANART-AGENT
1.3orgAirPair-MIB
1.3.6dodAirPair-MIB
1.3.6.1internetAirPair-MIB
1.3.6.1.6snmpV2DASAN-DHCP-MIB
1.3.6.1.6.3snmpModulesRAPID-CITY
Numeric OIDNameModule
1.3.6.1.6.3.15snmpUsmMIBSNMP-USER-BASED-SM-MIB
1.3.6.1.6.3.15.1usmMIBObjectsSNMP-USER-BASED-SM-MIB
1.3.6.1.6.3.15.1.1usmStatsSNMP-USER-BASED-SM-MIB
1.3.6.1.6.3.15.1.1.1usmStatsUnsupportedSecLevelsSNMP-USER-BASED-SM-MIB