[SNMP4J] SnmpV3 timeout issue with system clock drift

Jochen Katz katz at agentpp.com
Tue Nov 8 20:49:59 CET 2011


Hi,

> Thanks for the feedback. I understand that snmp4j wont resynchronize
> with the agent but  I wondering though, shouldn't the request return the
> "not in time window" report instead of a null event.

for SNMP4j the received message is too old, so the message must be
dropped and it is therefore not possible to forwarded it to the user.

> If not, in what case does a "not in time window" report get returned
> compared to a null event.

This report is normally hidden from the user. So you will only see it in
error situations, where time synchronization does not work.

Regards,
  Jochen



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