INFORM - REPORT - SET

[Jochen Katz]

Hi,

> First I receive the engineID, engineTime and engineBoots of a client by an 
> out-of-band mechanism.
> 
> I then receive an INFORM from that client and, via a callback send a 
> REPORT. This seems to work. However, while still inside the callback, I 
> next send a SET. This is where I get confused.
> 
> Simply put, what is the correct mechanism to set all the 
> msgSecurityParameters (including stuff like the msgAuthoritativeEngineTime, 
> which may be different from the received out-of-band value because time has 
> passed) correctly for the outgoing SET?

when sending a SNMPv3 message snmp++ does time synchronisation 
automatically, there is no way to do this yourself. Unless you didn't 
disable engine id discovery, this is also done by snmp++.

Regards,
   Jochen