Re: Why do I have to start snmpd twice to get USM to work?

Dave Shield <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.net-snmp.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
2009/4/17 Anthony Wright <[email protected]>:
>                                                 The engine IDs I
> specify on the createUser entries are fairly arbitrary at the moment,
> but they are different from the EngineID of the snmpd - my understanding
> is that they're supposed to be the engine ID of the machine that
> snmpget/snmpwalk is run on.

No.

The engineID used for the request will typically be the "authoritative
engineID"  (unless you explicitly specify something else).
Which for a GET* (or SET) request is the engineID of the *agent*,
not the engineID of the client.

Dave

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