[AGENT++] Wrong exeption in GET-response to unavailable object instance

[Frank Fock]

Hi Marcus,

There are only three exception states in SNMPv2c and SNMPv3:
noSuchObject
noSuchInstance
endOfMibView

With SNMPv1 all of the above exception states are mapped to the
NO_SUCH_NAME error status. AGENT++ does not return
the NO_SUCH_NAME error for SNMPv2c and SNMPv3 as
you pointed out. Therefore I assume, that either you used SNMPv1
for the GET request or you used an AGENT++Win32 master
agent in conjunction with a MS subagent DLL.

Unfortunately, those DLLs do not return proper error codes.

Hope this helps.

Best regards,
Frank

Fehde, Marcus wrote:

>Hi,
> 
>may be I discovered a non-compliance to RFC 3416 regarding the exception in case of an unavailable object instance.
>Example:
>An GET-request to 1.3.6.1.2.1.1.1.0 works as expected.
>An GET-request to 1.3.6.1.2.1.1.1 result in a "no-such-name" exception as well as
>an GET-requesz to 1.3.6.1.2.1.1.1.1.
> 
>Accordingly to RFC3416 the correct result would be an "no-such-instance" exception:
> 
>RFC3416 (SNMPv2); pp. 10-11 states:
>"Upon receipt of a GetRequest-PDU, the receiving SNMP entity 
>processes each variable binding in the variable-binding list 
>to produce a Response-PDU.  All fields of the Response-PDU 
>have the same values as the corresponding fields of the 
>received request except as indicated below.  Each variable 
>binding is processed as follows:
>   
>...
>   
>(2)  Otherwise, if the variable binding's name does not have an
>  OBJECT IDENTIFIER prefix which exactly matches the OBJECT
>  IDENTIFIER prefix of any (potential) variable accessible by
>  this request, then its value field is set to "noSuchObject".
>   
>  (3)  Otherwise, the variable binding's value field is set to
>  "noSuchInstance".
>
>Please, can someone verify this.
>
>Best regards/Mit freundlichen Gruessen 
>
>Marcus Fehde
>Dipl. Ing. Technische Informatik (FH)
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