Re: Textual name of Object in SNMP Packet

Robert Story <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.net-snmp.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, 15 May 2018 18:28:12 +0530 Anandaprabu wrote:
AV> Between SNMP Agent and Master OID is the common parameter. Will
AV> the Object name also should be same in Master and Agent?

If they are loading the same MIB definitions, they will be able to
consistently convert between names and OIDs.

AV> AFIK, SNMP master has to updates it's database with reference
AV> to the OID.

The 'master', or agent (aka snmpd; more properly responder), knows
nothing of names. It strictly deals with OIDs (other than names in
config files, which are converted to OIDs at startup).

Robert

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