Re: renaming an interface with snmpset

"Dave Shield" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.net-snmp.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 16/01/07, Stern, M. David <[email protected]> wrote:
> snmpset switch.fqdn ifDescr.1 s "Hostname"
> but it complains
>         snmpset: No securityName specified

Two problems:

1) It's expecting to use SNMPv3.
Try
    snmpset -v 1 -c public switch.fqdn ifDescr.1 s "Hostname"

2) ifDescr is not writable.
>From IF-MIB:
  ifDescr OBJECT-TYPE
    SYNTAX      DisplayString (SIZE (0..255))
    MAX-ACCESS  read-only    <====


Dave

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