docs: close out the SNMP rotation, residual and all - #32
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All four devices are rotated and polling. Three refuse their old community; the switch does not, and that is now an accepted risk rather than an open question. Its firmware does not persist a deletion from the SNMP community table — the row can be removed, applied and saved, and it is still there after a restart. Verified after a reboot, so the result reflects saved configuration rather than a stale agent. Each attempt also drops the SNMP agent until the switch is rebooted, and it is the switch the whole network runs through, so the cost of chasing it exceeds what it buys. What it buys is small: the community is read-only, and reaching UDP/161 on 10.7.7.2 needs both a foothold on the management VLAN and the specific pfSense rule permitting 10.0.99.20 to reach it. Recorded rather than quietly dropped, which is the standard this file already sets for the exposures above it. The roadmap item is narrowed to overwriting that row with a fresh value rather than deleting it, next time the switch is down anyway. Closes #9 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
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Final state of #9. All four devices rotated; one residual recorded as an accepted risk rather than left as an open question.
What changed
SECURITY.md,docs/security.mdanddocs/roadmap.mdall still described theswitch as not rotated and not answering SNMP. Both are now false.
Where it actually landed
morpheusmjolnirshivaneoneois rotated and polling. It also still accepts the community it heldbefore the rotation. That was verified after a reboot, so it reflects the
switch’s saved configuration rather than a stale agent — the firmware does not
persist a deletion from the SNMP community table.
Why this is accepted rather than fixed
Each removal attempt also drops the SNMP agent until the switch is rebooted,
and it is the switch the entire network runs through. The cost of continuing
exceeds what it buys:
10.7.7.2requires both a foothold on the managementVLAN and the specific pfSense rule permitting
10.0.99.20to reach it.Recorded rather than quietly dropped, which is the standard
SECURITY.mdalready sets for the exposures above it. The roadmap item is narrowed from
"finish the rotation" to "overwrite that row with a fresh value rather than
deleting it, next time the switch is down anyway" — the workaround for a
firmware that will not persist a delete.
Unchanged and still open: the original shared community remains in git history
and must be treated as public.
Blast radius
Documentation only.
secrets/*.sops.yamlVerification
./scripts/validate.shpasses,markdownlint-cli2clean.make validatepassesCloses #9