Re: Unknown Engine ID

Am Montag, 21. Dezember 2015, 14:27:51 schrieb Simon Chamlian:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> Using Ney-SNMP 5.7.1., I have an agent (v3) running.
> 
> 
> The user of this agent is responsible for making the server and he is
> complaining that when they change the server to a new server (same machine)
> to communicate to agent:
> 
>    a)      They do a GET with empty with empty binding to get the Engine ID
> 
> 
>     b)      The engine replies with Unknown Engine ID
> 
> 
> After that, they can no longer communicate with the agent.

who "they"?

This is the mechanism to discover the engineID of a unknown device. The 
manager should continue and request the information using the discovererd 
engineID.

If you have duplicate engineIDs the manager will stop or send out the request 
with a wrote bootCount.

See:
https://sys4.de/en/blog/2013/09/23/monitoring-snmpv3-and-engineid/
https://support.zabbix.com/browse/ZBX-8385


Mit freundlichen Grüßen,

Michael Schwartzkopff

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