SNMP Agent

[siangli]

Hi, Jochen.  Sorry for the question as SNMP is new to me.  What I wanted to
ask is:

Can agent for Machine A be activated using Machine B?  If yes, how?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jochen Katz" <katz____agentpp.com>
To: "siangli" <siangli____smartbridges.com>
Cc: <agentpp-dl____agentpp.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 5:54 PM
Subject: Re: SNMP++ Get Error, SNMP++: SNMP request timed out


> Hi,
>
> > I tried to run the agent under agentgen/agent at my pc.  Question:
> > 1.  At my machine, using the command line, can I specify other machine
that
> > I wanted the agent to be?
> > E.g. my machine ip address is 192.168.0.68 and I want the agent to be on
> > another device with address192.168.0.85.
> >
> > 2. If not to question (1), to make it possible, can I modify agent.cpp
at
> > line 322 into:
> >         UdpAddress dest("192.168.0.85/4700");
>
> mabe I didn't understand the question, but here's my answer: you can
> bind an agent to a specific interface:
> #ifdef SNMP_PP_WITH_UDPADDR
> // bind localhost only -> agent will not be reachable from
> // outside
> // UdpAddress inaddr("127.0.0.1");
> UdpAddress inaddr("0.0.0.0");
> inaddr.set_port(port);
> Snmpx snmp(status, inaddr);
> #else
> // bind on any address on local host
> Snmpx snmp(status, port);
> #endif
>
> > 3. Can you please explain the following output from agent:
> >         usmGetUser: get user (initial) engineID (  80 00 13 70 05 53 69
61
> > 6E 67 4C 69 12 5C          ...p.SiangLi.\)
> >     Why the engineID contains both the bytes staff and text staff?  What
> > should I be?
>
> The engineID is computed from the hostname and is printed out (in this
> case) two times using hex and printable characters.
>
> > After running agent (without any parameters), I run the "snmpGet
> > 192.168.0.68 -v3" in another dos window.  But I get:
> >         SNMP++ Get Error, SNMP++: SNMP request timed out
> > May I know what's wrong?
>
> snmpGet sends its request to port 161 while the agent listens on port
> 4700...
>
> Kind regards,
>   Jochen
>
>