[SNMP4J] snmp4j v3 inform & traps missing engineid

ymo omy ymolists at gmail.com
Sat Oct 6 15:23:09 CEST 2007


i tried both with no sucess unfortunately !

On 10/3/07, Frank Fock <fock at agentpp.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> By the information you gave me be private Email,
> I conclude that you have setup the USM user you
> are using for sending the inform with the engine
> ID of the agent. Instead you should either provide
> no engine ID or set it to the engine ID of the
> inform receiver.
>
> Best regards,
> Frank
>
> ymo omy wrote:
> > Hi.
> >
> > I am trying to send a a trap from the snmp4j agent. I tried to follow up
> the
> > heart beat exemple. However i am totally unable to make the agent
> informs
> > apear on the manager. I am using the net-snmp trap receiver. Here is the
> > scenarios:
> >
> > 1) i can see (from the sniffer) that an inform being sent from the agent
> > 2) i can see (from the sniffer) that the trap receiver always replies
> win a
> > report back to the agent.
> > 3) however the trap receiver always complains that the engine id is
> unknown.
> > I have setup the correct auth methods and i think all is configured well
> > because i can do get/getnext/walk using v3. The only thing i am missing
> so
> > far is the v3 trap/inform.
> >
> > Speaking with the net-snmp folks they seem to thing that the agent is
> > missing an auto-discovery of the correct engineid. Apparently the agent
> is
> > supposed to fire a request for autodiscovering the engineid before
> sending
> > the actual trap. Can someone confirm this please ?
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