linkUpDownNotifications not working

Hello,

I'm having trouble getting linkUpDownNotifications to work. I'll try
to describe the problem below and what I've found out so far.

It seems that the "monitor" directive *has* to have -u SECNAME
supplied, even though according to the doc at
http://www.net-snmp.net/docs/man/snmpd.conf.html you only need to use
-u if you want to use a different name than that specified by
iquerySecName.

The problem with this of course is that the linkUpDownNotifications
has no facility to specify a -u. (Yes I do realise I can manually add
the monitor and notificationevent lines that linkUpDownNotifications
is equivalent to, but I would like to try and resolve the issue).

Below is the log file generated when I start the smmpd.

# cat /var/log/snmp
registered debug token trap, 1
2006-09-28 16:02:27 trap: adding callback trap sink
2006-09-28 16:02:27 trapsess: adding to trap table
2006-09-28 16:02:27 /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf: line 94: Error: You must
specify a default user name using the agentSecName token
2006-09-28 16:02:27 /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf: line 94: Error: You must
specify a default user name using the agentSecName token
2006-09-28 16:02:27 net-snmp: 2 error(s) in config file(s)
2006-09-28 16:02:27 trap: send_trap 0 0 NET-SNMP-MIB::netSnmpAgentOIDs.10
2006-09-28 16:02:27 trap: sending trap type=167, version=1
2006-09-28 16:02:27 NET-SNMP version 5.3.1
#


Here is a portion of my snmpd.conf file.

87 # Need to create an snmp3 user for the disman stuff to work.
88 createUser dismanUser MD5 "noli me tangere"
89 rouser dismanUser
90 iquerySecName dismanUser
91
92 # Built in trap to monitor the network interfaces
93 #defaultMonitors yes
94 linkUpDownNotifications yes
95
96 # Monitor lines
97
98 ## PROC ##
99 # proc, check every 60s
100 # oid 
is .iso.org.dod.internet.private.enterprises.ucdavis.prTable.prEntry.prErrorFlag
101 monitor -u dismanUser -r 60 -S -e procMon -o prNames -o
prErrMessage "proc monitor" .1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.2.1.100 > 0
102

If I remove the -u in line 101, then the log file will contain an
additional copy of the error message, but for line 101 as well.

Also, using the directive agentSecName instead of iquerySecName makes
no difference.

I'm running snmpd with the options '-Lf /var/log/snmp -p
/var/run/snmpd.pid -Dtrap' on version net-snmp 5.3.1.

Are the error message I'm seeing my fault?

Thanks.

H.

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