Re: [IPFIX] exporterIPv4Address and exporterIPv6Address question
Juergen Schoenwaelder <[email protected]>
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On Fri, Dec 07, 2012 at 07:19:17PM +0000, Paul Aitken wrote: > > In this case it seems that you'd want to report the addresses of the > polled devices, ie the source(s) of the SNMP information, rather > than the exporter's address. Anyway the exporter's address will be > visible to the collector (unless it's NAT'd). > According to SNMP's architectural model, data is scoped by the agent's snmpEngineID. Transport address may be plentiful and change more or less arbitrarily. Yes, I know that many manager implementations still do prefer dealing with IP addresses - but architecturally, the snmpEngineID is the correct application layer identifier for an SNMP agent. /js -- Juergen Schoenwaelder Jacobs University Bremen gGmbH Phone: +49 421 200 3587 Campus Ring 1, 28759 Bremen, Germany Fax: +49 421 200 3103 <http://www.jacobs-university.de/> _______________________________________________ IPFIX mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipfix