snmp over internet "best practice"

[Aaron]

I joined the list recently and while doing some searching for answers 
came across a "best practices" thread.  One of the things listed in the 
thread was using snmp whenever possible with the statement that it 
should only be used on the local networks.

I'm wondering if this is also the popular belief "best practice" even if 
you're using snmp v3 and if so why.  I was about to deploy snmp v3 
active checks to check things like cpu and disk loads and then i saw 
this post.  I thought that was the whole point of v3 with SHA and AES 
encryptions and authentication so that we could use it over the net.

Thanks in advance.

Aaron

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