Re: snmpinform questions

Thanks very much for the answers.


Wes Hardaker escribió:
>>>>>> "AG" == Antonio Grassi <[email protected]> writes:
>>>>>>             
> AG> - First of all, can snmp notifications be sent over TCP instead of UDP?
>
> Yes.
>
> AG> - snmpinform talks with snmpd in order to deliver the notification. I've 
> AG> seen that snmpd has a buffer of commands to process. Does snmpinform 
> AG> exit after passing the notification to snmpd (even if snmpd hasn't 
> AG> processed it yet)? I think not, but want to be sure.
>
> snmpd can send informs, not receive them.  snmptrapd is what can receive
> informs (from anything that generates them, including snmpd and
> snmpinform).
>
> snmpinform will wait for the remote receiver (snmptrapd) to acknowledge
> that it received it before exiting.
>
> AG> - If not, wich are the exit codes of snmpinform (snmpcmd?) I mean, I saw 
> AG> that snmpinform can be used in such a way that it retries the 
> AG> inform-request n times, with x seconds between each retry. But how can I 
> AG> differentiate the case in wich the program exits because it receives the 
> AG> confirmation from the manager, from that in which the program exits 
> AG> because it has reached the maximum number of retries?
>
> It'll exit with a 1 if it failed to get the inform to its destination.
>
> AG> - Does snmptrapd recognize a repeated snmp notification (because it's 
> AG> previous confirmation was lost)?
>
> No, it will log it twice.
>
> AG> - If yes, is there a way to identify a notification as being the same, 
> AG> even between different invocations of snmpinform?
>
> no, which is exactly why it doesn't assume that it's a duplicate.
>   


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