The HPE Alletra Storage ArcusOS device must be configured to authenticate SNMP messages using a FIPS-validated Keyed-Hash Message Authentication Code (HMAC).

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-283409	ASMP-ND-000830	SV-283409r1194921_rule	CCI-001967	medium
Description
It is critical for the appropriate personnel to be aware if a system is at risk of failing to process audit logs as required. Without a real-time alert, security personnel may be unaware of an impending failure of the audit capability and system operation may be adversely affected. Alerts provide organizations with urgent messages. Real-time alerts provide these messages immediately (i.e., the time from event detection to alert occurs in seconds or less). Without authenticating devices, unidentified or unknown devices may be introduced, thereby facilitating malicious activity. Bidirectional authentication provides stronger safeguards to validate the identity of other devices for connections that are of greater risk. A local connection is any connection with a device communicating without using a network. A network connection is any connection with a device that communicates through a network (e.g., local area or wide area network; internet). A remote connection is any connection with a device communicating through an external network (e.g., the internet). Because of the challenges of applying this requirement on a large scale, organizations are encouraged to only apply the requirement to those limited number (and type) of devices that truly need to support this capability.
STIG			Date
HPE Alletra Storage ArcusOS Network Device Management Security Technical Implementation Guide			2026-03-03

Details

Check Text (C-283409r1194921_chk)

Verify the system is configured to use SNMP v3 with the following command: cli% showsnmpmgr HostIP Port SNMPVersion User Notify AlertClear 16.172.70.200 162 3 Alletrasnmpuser standard standard If the "HostIP" is blank, this is a finding. If "SNMPVersion" is not set to "3", this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-87879r1194920_fix)

Configure the system to use SNMPv3: cli% setsnmpmgr <ip_address> -p <port> -version 3 Note: The system supports both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses for the SNMP Host.