Re: passive or ative actives over net-snmp

On 13/07/06, Sergio Alves de Lima Junior <[email protected]> wrote:
> 1 - Is possible define MIBs to interact system? Example: apply rules of
> firewall or remove rules of firewall.

Yes.
It needs more than just defining a MIB, of course - you also have to write
the code to actually *implement* that MIB.  And handling SET requests is
somewhat more tricky than simply reporting the current configuration via
GET* requests.   But it's certainly possible to do this with a little care.

> 2 - Change values of configuration the system? Example: change inet
> addresses in select device.

Again, this is perfectly practical in principle.   Fiddling with
network addressing
has some obvious dangers, of course - not least the ability to report back
success (or failure!) having changed the network addresses.  But the SNMP
framework would allow you to change almost anything, given suitable code.

I haven't checked recently, but the Net-SNMP agent is probably more concerned
with reporting configuration than manipulating it - there's relatively
few writable
MIB object supported in the code.  But this situation is slowly improving, and
you are more than welcome to assist.  It's just a Simple Matter of
Programming :-)

Dave


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