diff --git a/doc/source/developer-notes/V-38660.rst b/doc/source/developer-notes/V-38660.rst
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@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+Although neither Ubuntu 14.04 or openstack-ansible install or configure the
+SNMP daemon by default, the Ansible tasks will check to see if the SNMP
+configuration file is present. If the file is present, and the file contains
+configurations for insecure SNMP protocols, an error will be
+printed and the playbook will fail.
+
+The task specifically looks for uncommented configuration lines containing:
+
+* ``v1``
+* ``v2c``
+* ``com2sec``
+* ``community``
+
+`Red Hat's guide to SNMP`_ has some example configurations that deployers
+can use to enable SNMPv3.
+
+.. _Red Hat's guide to SNMP: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Deployment_Guide/sect-System_Monitoring_Tools-Net-SNMP-Configuring.html
diff --git a/tasks/misc.yml b/tasks/misc.yml
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--- a/tasks/misc.yml
+++ b/tasks/misc.yml
@@ -141,6 +141,35 @@
     - cat3
     - V-38656
 
+- name: Check if SNMP daemon is installed (for V-38660)
+  shell: "dpkg --status snmpd | grep \"^Status:.*ok installed\""
+  register: v38660_snmpd_installed
+  changed_when: False
+  failed_when: False
+  tags:
+    - cat2
+    - V-38660
+
+# We shouldn't get any output from this grep since it looks for configuration
+# lines for the SNMP v1 and v2c protocols.
+- name: Check for insecure SNMP protocols (for V-38660)
+  shell: "egrep 'v1|v2c|com2sec|community' /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf | grep -v '^\\s*#'"
+  register: v38660_result
+  when: v38660_snmpd_installed.rc == 0
+  changed_when: False
+  failed_when: False
+  tags:
+    - cat2
+    - V-38660
+
+- name: V-38660 - The snmpd service must only use SNMPv3 or newer
+  fail:
+    msg: "FAILED: Insecure SNMP configuration found -- use SNMPv3 only"
+  when: v38660_snmpd_installed.rc == 0 and v38660_result.rc == 0
+  tags:
+    - cat2
+    - V-38660
+
 - name: V-38675 - Process core dump must be disabled
   lineinfile:
     dest: /etc/security/limits.d/V-38675-coredump.conf