Re: Unknown user name

j hite <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.net-snmp.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 4:04 PM, j hite <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> I have an SNMP agent on a PowerPC running the Nucleus OS. I have been able
> to run snmpget and snmpset v1 and v2c from the command line using the
> net-snmp tools. However whenever I try to use v3 I get the Unknown user name
> error. The Usm_User_Table, Cfg_Sec2Groups, and Snmp_Cfg_Access tables have
> been setup in the agent.
>
> Is this error being generated by the agent or could the manager be the
> source? Does the manager need to "know" the user names? It seems it would
> need to know things like user/securitynames, engine Ids, etc for authPriv
> type messages. I looked at smnpusm documentation but it seems it is used for
> updating the agent.
>
>
> Thanks
> jvh
>


Found my (stupid) error. I was sending to the wrong device. Naturally it
responded to a common object like sysUpTime with v1 and not v3. Now I can
move on to researching the authorization error.


jh

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