Re: Not able to set value using snmpset

Hello Dave,

Thank you for the comments.

I would see to it that i study more on agent and extending the support for
agent.


With Regards
Anirudha Patil


On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 6:06 PM, Dave Shield <[email protected]>wrote:

> On 31 October 2012 11:59, Anirudha Patil <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I have a concern about "snmpset" command. I'm not able to set a
> > hrStorageDescr or hrStorageType.
>
> Correct.
> From the definition of these objects in HOST-RESOURCES-MIB:
>
> hrStorageType OBJECT-TYPE
>     MAX-ACCESS read-only
>     ::= { hrStorageEntry 2 }
>
> hrStorageDescr OBJECT-TYPE
>     MAX-ACCESS read-only
>    ::= { hrStorageEntry 3 }
>
> "read-only"  means that you cannot issue a SET command on such objects.
>
>
>
> >   I have also manually tried changing the MAX-ACCESS for the objects
> > in their corresponding MIB [/usr/share/snmp/mibs], but still its not
> working
>
> a)  This is an internationally agreed standard MIB.
>       You can't simply decide to change it unilaterally.
>
> b)  The code within the agent that implements this MIB has been written
>       following the standard definitions.  As such, these objects are
>       implemented as read-only objects.   There is simply no code
>       within the agent to handle SET requests for them
>          Even if you go your own way and ignore issues of interoperability,
>       you are still going to have to write additional code for the agent,
> so
>       that it knows how to handle SET requests for these objects - how to
>       process the assignment, how to save the new state so that it's
>       retained when the agent restarts, etc, etc
>
> The agent is not a magic box - you can't simply edit a text file and expect
> everything to just start working.   You need to supply the missing code.
>
> Dave
>

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