Re: Received response for SNMPv3 inform; but Agent still sending inform for the number of retries configured.

Wes Hardaker <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.net-snmp.devel,gmane.network.net-snmp.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Suresh kumar <[email protected]> writes:

> 1. Engine ID discovered correctly during discovery; but Agent still
> incrementing usmStatsUnknownEngineIDs.0 (See EngineIDErrorPkt.pcap)
> 2. Also sending report
> SNMP-USER-BASED-SM-MIB::usmStatsNotInTimeWindows.0 (See
> EngineIDErrorPkt.pcap). updated System time on Agent; still error
> received.

These are actually normal.  In the process of engineID discovery (and
time discovery) the agent will receive a message with the wrong
engineID, so the agent increments the count and sends back the real one.
That's actually how engineID discovery works.

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Wes Hardaker
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