RE: Unknown engine ID

Please excuse my ignorance of community support list usage.  I am an old
IBMer and not familiar with the proper open source community behavior.

OS: 
Linux 2.6.9-34.ELsmp #1 SMP Fri Feb 24 16:54:53 EST 2006 i686 i686 i386
GNU/Linux

NET-SNMP build from Red Hat Network:
net-snmp-devel-5.1.2-13.el4_7.2
net-snmp-libs-5.1.2-13.el4_7.2
net-snmp-utils-5.1.2-13.el4_7.2
net-snmp-5.1.2-13.el4_7.2

I did not explicitly set the engineID.  I had read in the Net-SNMP docs
that it was recommended to let net-snmp generate it.

Thank you.

_____________________________
Eric Cardoza

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Ayers [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 2:46 PM
To: Cardoza, Eric D.; [email protected]
Subject: RE: Unknown engine ID


> From: Cardoza, Eric D. [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 9:55 AM

> Hello Mr. Ayers.

	Talk to the list, not the individual, please.

> The only tool is net-snmp.

	net-snmp is not a tool - it is a collection of tools.

>  As you see from the information 
> in my email,
> I am using snmp commands such as snmpget or snmpwalk to query 
> the MIBs.
> For a few minutes after I start the snmpd daemon on the system which I
> am querying, the snmp commands return OID data.  Then after a few
> minutes, I get the "Unknown engine ID" msg.  I must then stop and
> restart the snmpd daemon on the target system for the snmp commands to
> retrieve data again.  I am not using any external software product in
> this test.

	Hmmmm - this is *very* strange and should never happen - the
engineID should be a constant for an engine.  Can you please submit
details for the installation:

	- what OS are you running on?

	- where did the build come from?

	- Are you explicitly setting the engineId in snmpd.conf?


	That's a start...


	Thanks,

Mike


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