RE: How to let the snmpd to persist usm user changes right away?

"Ping Chen" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.net-snmp.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi, Wes:

I tried that, the first time it works.  But If I change the USM keys several times, only the older version is persisted, not new ones somehow( I call the same script).


Thanks
Ping


-----Original Message-----
From: Wes Hardaker [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tue 10/16/2007 3:19 PM
To: Ping Chen
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: How to let the snmpd to persist usm user changes right away?
 
>>>>> "PC" == Ping Chen <[email protected]> writes:

PC> I use snmpusm command to update my USM user's auth/private passcode,
PC> and the command works fine.  But I realize, after I issue the
PC> snmpusm command, all the changes take effect right away in the
PC> running snmpd, but it looks like the changes are NOT persist in the
PC> /var/und-snmp/snmpd.conf right away.  I got a feeling the config
PC> file is only persisted during a graceful shutdown.  So I got a issue
PC> here, if the snmpd crashed, or some one did a "kill -9", all my
PC> changes are lost.

PC> IS there a way to ask snmpd to persist the changes in
PC> /var/und-snmp/snmpd.conf right away?

I've answered your question here: 

http://www.net-snmp.org/wiki/index.php/Persistent_Storage_Does_Not_Get_Updated_Immediately


(see the page for details, but the short answer is: it is possible)
-- 
Wes Hardaker
Sparta, Inc.

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