Re: Engine Discovery for InformRequest

On 21/04/2008, B Venkat S.R Swamy <[email protected]> wrote:
> As per the RFC 3414 , sec 1.5.1 -  Authoritative SNMP Engine,
> For the InformRequest PDU which is Confirmed Class PDU, the authoritative
> engine is Manager and non-authoritative engine is Agent.

Correct.
(Well, strictly speaking, the authoritative engine is the Notification Receiver,
and the non-authoritative engine is the Notification Generator -  but typically
the agent is acting as a Notification Generator, and the manager is
acting as a Notification Receiver.  So yes).


> So does a discovery process applies while sending the InformRequest PDU from
> Agent to the V3 Manager.

Yes.
In exactly the same way as client commands (Request Generators) will probe
the agent (Request Responder) for GET*/SET requests.

Dave

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