RE: Help needed on EngineID.

Thanks a lot Wes. It worked perfectly for me!!!   

-----Original Message-----
From: Wes Hardaker [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 9:48 PM
To: Ragesh V
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Help needed on EngineID.

>>>>> On Mon, 16 Feb 2009 15:28:16 +0530, "Ragesh V" <[email protected]>
said:

RV> I have one snmp agent, which should reply to the get/getNext
RV> from an SNMP manager with the contextEngineID and
RV> msgAuthoritativeEngineID as per my requirement (ie Our enterprise ID
+
RV> IP of one machine + Trailing zeros). 

Using IP addresses for engineIDs can be problematic if you ever change
the IP address of the machine (which is almost certainly likely to
happen with some devices on your network).

RV> engineID  0x<Hex value created with ENT OID and IP + trailing zeros>


That method (if you read the snmpd.conf manual page) is for using a
string encoded engineID defined by the SNMPv3 specs.  There isn't a
published engineID mechanism for directly specifying one via hex.

That being said, you could use the internal unpublished one of
"oldEngineID".  If you use this, put it in /var/net-snmp/snmpd.conf
before the first time you start snmpd.
-- 
Wes Hardaker
Sparta, Inc.

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