Re: Multiple application instances - how to use parallel MIBs

Rob O'Connor <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.net-snmp.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Thanks Dave!  This leads on to another question - in such a 
multi-instance situation is it possible to identify which instance a 
trap is coming from? I can't figure a way of doing this ...

Rob.


Dave Shield wrote:
> On 26/04/07, Rob O'Connor <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I have multiple instances of an application on a host, each with the
>> same OIDs.   I have each app configured as a subagent...
>
>> How can I determine which app instance a trap comes from, or can I
>> browse each individual instance in a MIB browser somehow? I'm figuring
>> this is what snmpv3 contexts are for
>
> Quite correct.  This is exactly where SNMPv3 contexts come in.
>
> But note that when working with a non-default context, there are
> several points where this context must be taken into account:
>
>  -  you need to specify the context as part of the request
>        ("snmpwalk -v 3 -n {context} ....")
>  -  you need to specify the context as part of access control config
>       ("access  group  {context} .....")
>  - and you need to specify the context when the subagent registers
>        with the master agent.   We can't advise you how to do that,
>        since you say you're using a different subagent toolkit.
>        You'll need to talk to the cryptix people about that.
>
> Dave
>


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