Re: SNMP error code capture ??
"Dave Shield" <[email protected]>
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On 31/01/07, sarathy <[email protected]> wrote: > But why is then an snmp ERROR code "authorizationError (16)" > exist if the agent does not respond ? >From RFC 1901, Section 3: Note that with this administrative framework, the 'authorizationError(16)' value defined for the error-status component of an SNMPv2 PDU [4] is unused. It may, however, be used with future administrative frameworks. This is exactly what happened with SNMPv3 (see RFC 3413) > Also is there a straight way to get the error code from the execution of an > SNMP command, rather than processing from the debug output/raw packet > hexdump ? Not with the command-line tools, no. But if you wrote a simple C-based application to make the request, you'd have access to the 'pdu->error_status' field, which holds this value. > > > 3. While specifying incorrect agent port in an snmpget. > > I added this option to mean that the error message is valid for this and not > the other two :-). i.e The error reporting is incorrect .. No - the error reporting is correct. If the client application doesn't receive a response, then that's what it should report. It can't exactly make up an error code! Now you might well wish to take issue with the behaviour when a community-based agent receives a request with an unknown community. But that's a complaint for the group that defined SNMP - not us. :-) We're just following the specification of the protocol! I'm actually surprised that you get a timeout with SNMPv3 though. I thought that should return a REPORT PDU. But Wes is the SNMPv3 expert, not me - and I don't really have the time to investigate properly just at the moment. Dave ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Net-snmp-users mailing list [email protected] Please see the following page to unsubscribe or change other options: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/net-snmp-users