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From: Magnus Fromreide [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Sunday, October 11, 2009 11:37 AM
To: EYRE Bernadette
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: I need access to the input pdu variables
On Fri, 2009-10-09 at 20:22 -0500, EYRE Bernadette wrote:
>
> I have 5.4.2.1 version based sub-agent which connects to the master
> agent
> and registers an OID handler.
You are not stating what protocol you are using so I will assume AgentX
but the discussion is true for all subagent protocols
>> Thanks for replying. I'm using AgentX.
> I need access to few of the incoming (input) pdu variables such as
> community name,
> community length, for SNMPv1/v2, and securityName and securityNamelen,
> for SNMPv3.
> When the sub-agent oid handler is called the following pointers are
> passed to it:
These are explicitly not part of the protocol and are thus not available
to the subagent.
Even for a built in handler I would posit that it is bad style to depend
on them, what are you doing that makes you feel a need for them?
>> I need access to the SNMP protocol version as well as the
user-name/security-name.
>> We have our own authentication and authorization server. Based on the
protocol
>> I need to extract the user name and pass it to the authentication and
authorization server
>> to validate the user.
/MF
Any further comments are much appreciated.
Bernadette Eyre
> netsnmp_mib_handler *handler,
> netsnmp_handler_registration *reginfo,
> netsnmp_agent_request_info *reqinfo,
> netsnmp_request_info *requests
>
> I used agent request info , reqinfo above, pointer to print and
> examine the content of the
> reqinfo->asp->pdu->community
> reqinfo->asp->orig_pdu->securityName
> reqinfo->asp->session->community
> reqinfo->asp->session->securityName
>
> all of these resulted in NULL pointer and 0 length for the length of
> the string
> They are not set.
>
> Does any one on this list know how from the handler to obtain the
> above security elements?
>
> Your help as always is appreciated,
>
> Regards,
>
> Bernadette Eyre
>
>
>
>
>
>
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