trap filtering on subagent?

Frank Fock Frank.Fock____t-online.de
Tue Sep 17 13:13:15 CEST 2002


Denise,

According the AgentX specifications, the functionality for
address lookup and filtering has to reside on the master.
This is supported by AgentX++. If you need to implement a
different concept, you will have to extend the AgentX
protocol by proprietary messages.

Best regards,
Frank

Denise Denney wrote:
> Is there any way for a subagent (AgentXSlave) to designate the recipient 
> for a trap and convey that information to the master agent(AgentXMaster) 
> ? I am trying to setup a single subagent to originate all traps for the 
> system and am hoping to perform destination addresses filtering on the 
> subagent rather than the master. Can a subagent convey to the master a 
> "forwarding address" for a notification PDU (SubAgentXMib::notify()). Or 
> must all the functionality for address lookup and filtering 
> (snmpTargetParamsTable, snmpTargetAddrTable, snmpNotifyTable, 
> snmpNotifyFilterTable and snmpNotifyFilterProfileTable) reside on the 
> master?
>  
> Any help is much appreciated.
> Thanks,
> Denise






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