Patent ID: 8661242
Filing Date: 2014-02-25
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for accessing sensor information in a Network Management Protocol computer system with automating authentication of network devices, said method comprising the steps of: sending a network management command from a network management system to a network managed device, said network management command including a new set of authentication and privacy passwords, together with instructions to said network managed device to change a current set of authentication and privacy passwords of said network managed device to said new set of authentication and privacy passwords, said network management command encoded with said current set of authentication and privacy passwords; at said network managed device in response to said network management command, replacing said current set of authentication and privacy passwords with said new set of authentication and privacy passwords if said current set of authentication and privacy passwords corresponds to said current authentication and privacy passwords known to an authentication and privacy password control of said network managed device, and generating and sending to said network management system an acknowledgement message encoded with said new set of authentication and privacy passwords, wherein at said network managed device, and in response to an information command requesting particular sensor information, further comprising the step of authenticating said authentication and privacy passwords in said command requesting particular sensor information, and wherein in response to authentication of said information command requesting particular sensor information from said network managed device, further comprising the step of generating and sending a response message to said network management system.