[SNMP4J] community name in agent

[Jeff Ramin]

Thanks Frank.

So, just to be completely explicit about this - the community
name of a V2 agent would be changed by modifying rows in the
snmpCommunityTable?


Frank Fock wrote:
> Jeff,
> 
> These objects are standard SNMP objects and
> are therefore documented in the corresponding
> RFCs. For the SNMP-COMMUNITY-MIB
> see RFC 3584.
> 
> Best regards,
> Frank
> 
> Jeff Ramin schrieb:
>>
>> As I've posted before, I'm trying to figure out how to change the
>> community name of an existing MOServer...
>>
>> I've been looking at the source code, and came across this method
>> in the TestAgent:
>>
>>   protected void addCommunities(SnmpCommunityMIB communityMIB) {
>>     Variable[] com2sec = new Variable[] {
>>         new OctetString("public"),              // community name
>>         new OctetString("cpublic"),              // security name
>>         getAgent().getContextEngineID(),        // local engine ID
>>         new OctetString("public"),              // default context name
>>         new OctetString(),                      // transport tag
>>         new Integer32(StorageType.nonVolatile), // storage type
>>         new Integer32(RowStatus.active)         // row status
>>     };
>>     MOTableRow row =
>>         communityMIB.getSnmpCommunityEntry().createRow(
>>           new OctetString("public2public").toSubIndex(true), com2sec);
>>     communityMIB.getSnmpCommunityEntry().addRow(row);
>> //    snmpCommunityMIB.setSourceAddressFiltering(true);
>>   }
>>
>>
>> Is this how a community name is added/changed in an existing agent?
>>
>> I was hoping it would be a simple setCommunityName(String) type of call,
>> but apparently not.
>>
>> Is there any documentation that explains the various objects above? 
>> Things
>> like "security name", "local engine id", "context name", etc. don't mean
>> anything to me. I'd like to understand the relationship between these
>> objects/concepts, but looking at the javadoc doesn't suffice.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>>

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Jeffrey Ramin
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