Re: 5.8 testing status

On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 10:02 AM, Bart Van Assche <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On 04/26/18 04:57, Bill Fenner wrote:
>
>> A new feature went into 5.8 that conflicts a little with using an agentx
>> subagent.  I mentioned this here:
>> https://sourceforge.net/p/net-snmp/mailman/message/36270409/
>> You can replicate it by configuring a normal snmpd as an agentx master,
>> and then running:
>>
>>
>> $ sudo snmpd -C -f -Le -x /var/run/agentx/master -X
>> *unknown snmp version 193*
>> NET-SNMP version 5.8.pre2 AgentX subagent connected
>> NET-SNMP version 5.8.pre2
>>
>> The "unknown snmp version" message may just be noise, but may cause traps
>> from AgentX subagents to not be delivered depending on the net-snmp library
>> configuration (in my configuration it's fine. I haven't actually tried a
>> standard configuration).
>>
>> (The context is that the library now tries to suppress converting traps
>> from v1 to v2 or vice versa if there is no trap sink of the right type,
>> but, it does not know how to treat agentx sessions so doesn't count them -
>> so if there's only an agentx session open it may not send *any* traps since
>> it "knows" there are no v1 or v2 trap sessions open)
>>
>
> Hello Bill,
>
> Which commit are you referring to? Three regression tests that passed in
> the past and that send a trap over an AgentX session fail on some test
> setups.
>

The commit in question is f770e0f7493204f184c468a7c4dba31f0cd6fc5d .  I
think it'll cause traps sent from a subagent to fail if you have
snmpNotifyTable included, meaning that traps get sent via callback, and
will work otherwise.

  Bill

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