Customers using Paragon Insights to monitor devices or device groups want to know if they must configure an ID and password for SSH login as part of SNMP monitoring. There is confusion between SSH access requirements and SNMP trap/notification validation workflows.

SSH authentication is not required for SNMP monitoring. However, if you want to verify new SNMP notifications received from device groups, you must log in to the Paragon Insights server as the root user and run the following command:

# /var/local/healthbot/healthbot cli --device-group healthbot -s influxdb

This command allows you to track new SNMP trap notifications sent to the Paragon Insights server for the fields you configured (e.g., IfAdminStatus).

For more information, refer to the official documentation:

https://www.juniper.net/documentation/us/en/software/paragon-automation23.1/paragon-automation-user-guide/topics/task/pi-configure-snmp-trap-inform.html