[SNMP4J] SNMP Manager re-installation no longer authenticating

[Frank Fock]

Hi,

On 18.01.2010 16:30, Aidan Diffey wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I have an SNMP device which is connected to a manager (A J2EE application).
> They are both talking to each other using SNMP V3.  I have re-installed the
> manager which involved reloading a database.
> This has reset the engine boot count on the manager from 21 back to 1. Since
> then, I am receiving a -1414 error from SNMP4J.

This is absolutely normal. Either do not reset the boot counter
or delete the cached boot counter information.

>
> Is there something in SNMP4J that requires the engine boots to be
> incremented in order for authentication to take place?

This is a SNMPv3 requirement, nothing SNMP4J requires.

>
> How would I get the devices talking again after rebuilding the manager
> database?

Let SNMP4J rediscover the engine ID of the device.
Use Snmp.discoverEngineID(..)

Best regards,
Frank


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