snmpd.conf and 'sys*' Configuration Directives

Hi,

In case anyone is reading this list ;)...

It seems that there is no way to "reset" the sys* configuration directives (sysName/sysDescr/sysLocation/sysContact - I've actually only played with a couple of these but I suspect they all work similarly in this regard). I can successfully change sysLocation (for e.g.) to any non-zero value, issue a 'pkill -HUP snmpd' and followed by an 'snmpget <other params> syslocation.0' to retrieve the updated value. However, there's no way to represent an "empty/zero-length" string for this directive in order to clear out/reset the object. BTW, simply commenting out the directive doesn't do anything (i.e., the running agent simply reloads a configuration that doesn't have any new value for the directive so the pre-existing value persists).

I'm guessing this is a limitation of the snmpd configuration file parsing? However, I see reference to empty string context values so I'm guessing there must be some way to represent this. Is there? Otherwise, I take it this is a bug related to limited configuration file parsing?

Regards,
-David 

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