Re: Using "pass" scripts and proxying
Robert Story <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.network.net-snmp.user |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Fri, 01 Sep 2017 13:05:39 -0400 [email protected] wrote: EC> I have a situation where I'm using net-snmp to proxy snmp v3 EC> requests to snmp v2c with contexts to define where to send the EC> forwarded queries. EC> EC> This part is all fine. Where I'm running into trouble is that EC> the system doing the polling can't contend with interface EC> indexes over 100. We're only monitoring a couple interfaces per EC> device, but some of them have high indexes. I have written a EC> pass script that can do the translation to a lower index number EC> and perform the poll itself, but unfortunately it never gets EC> called unless I'm querying localhost on the snmp proxy machine. EC> I assume it is because in the proxy statement, you define what EC> part of the tree to proxy, which currently is .1.3, so it just EC> proxies it unconditionally without going through all the pass EC> statements. EC> EC> Knowing that what I'm trying to do is get a response back on EC> the same OID, but a different index value, anybody have any EC> suggestions? You need to use the '-p priority' option with the pass config in snmpd.conf. From the snmpd.conf man page: The default registration priority is 127. This can be changed by supplying the optional -p flag, with lower priority registrations being used in preference to higher priority values. Robert ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Net-snmp-users mailing list [email protected] Please see the following page to unsubscribe or change other options: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/net-snmp-users