[SNMP4J] getting the authoritative engine id

[BADENHOP Wim]

Hi,

This is more or less a general question, but since this is the place
with the SNMP experts, I will ask it here :-)

I am writing an snmp manager (in snmp4j) which has to deal with several
agents. The communication is snmp v3 so the manager has to get the
engine ids from the agents.

What I do now is that I get the authoritative engine id via
"discoverAuthoritativeEngineID" every time I send an snmp request to the
agent. This has the advantage that in case an agent has to be replaced,
no configuration change has to be made on the manager. However the
drawback is of course the overhead when sending a request.

Does anybody have an "ideal" solution for this?


Regards Wim

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