[SNMP4J] USM with multiple users with same name, different credentials

[Eugene R. Snider]

Frank,

On a slightly different note have you ever considered integrating the 
USM with an LDAP backend?

Gene

Frank Fock wrote:
> Hi Venkat,
>
> The approach you outlined below is the recommended way.
> You can use it also slightly modified by leaving
> engine discovery activated, but adding those users
> that have different passwords on different machines
> only localized to their engine ID (which has to be
> known in advance, of course).
>
> Best regards,
> Frank
>
> Venkatraju wrote:
>>
>> The problem is that two devices may have the same user with different
>> auth/privacy password. How should these users be added in that case?
>> One approach I am thinking of using:
>> - disable engine discovery in USM
>> - Use Snmp.discoverAuthoritativeEngineID to find the engineId for each
>>   device configured.
>> - USM.addUser associated with the engineId discovered above
>>
>> Is this approach ok? Is there a better way? Is there a better way to 
>> do this
>> if I use one Snmp object per device?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Venkat
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