[SNMP4J] Configure agent address (SNMPv3-informs)

[Frank Fock]

Kai,

There is an object defined to describe what was
specified by the agentAddress field in SNMPv1.
Please read the RFC 3584 for more details.

Best regards,
Frank

Kai Wiemer schrieb:
> Hi,
>
> we are using SNMP4J in a project and due to security reasons we
> currently switched from v1 to v3. In more detail SNMP4J is used in the
> context of automated tests. By sending traps respectively informs we
> force our application (under test) to communicate (snmpgets) with a
> SNMP (v3) capable agent and to update or create certain data records
> in the underlying database.
>
> The key point is that the inform-sender is a different "agent"
> (automated tests) than the one our application communicates with.
>
> So A sends informs to B and B communicates with C.
>
> To do so it is necessary our application knows which agents sent the
> trap/inform and reverse to manipulate the sender's IP address. Using
> org.snmp4j.PDUv1 objects it was easy to configure the agent's address
> by calling void org.snmp4j.PDUv1.setAgentAddress(IpAddress arg0). Now
> that we switched to SNMPv3 and using org.snmp4j.ScopedPDU I don't see
> any obvious chance to configure the agent's address.
>
> To cut a long story short: how can i configure the agent's IP address
> using SNMPv3-informs?
>
> Thanks in advance and best regards
>
> Kai
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