Re: "Dynamic" agent configuration

"Dave Shield" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.net-snmp.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 18/10/06, Jing Guan <[email protected]> wrote:
> According to the FAQ document in Net-SNMP website, "The location is used
> for information set during the running of the agent, which needs to be persistent
> between one run of the agent and the next."

Although the /var/net-snmp/snmpd.conf file is used to store information from
one run of the agent to the next - that doesn't mean you can put arbitrary
directives in this file.  Different MIB modules work in different ways, but will
often use distinct directives for "static" configuration (set up by
the N/W admin)
and "dynamic" configuration (set up via SNMP SET requests).

There's a good reason that the /var/net-snmp/snmpd.conf starts with the comment

    "DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE"


> I copied the trap directive "monitor ...."  [into] the /var/net-snmp/snmpd.conf.
>  Then I used "snmpset" to change the value from 2000 to 3000.

Sorry - that's not allowed.
>From DISMAN-EVENT-MIB:

mteTriggerEntryStatus OBJECT-TYPE
    DESCRIPTION
        "The control that allows creation and deletion of entries.
         Once made active an entry may not be modified except to
delete it." <===


Which version of the agent are you using?
I've tried this with the 5.3.x agent, which (correctly) refuses to
allow this SET.

Dave

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