WH> The SNMPv3 specifications say that a running manager should allow its
WH> notion of an agents clock values to go forward, but not backward.  Thus,
WH> we're doing what we're supposed to do: we won't accept *older* values
WH> than what we have cached (but would accept newer values).  So, we're
WH> following the specifications.

After days of painstaking UDP packet captures, I have found that we
are having a similar issue.  Now, I see that net-snmp is following
RFC3414's spec, which is very helpful to us, but now I need to be able
to provide for this situation.

Currently, most of our customers do not use SNMPv3; however, more and
more are.  Our polling process polls thousands of SNMP devices, and it
is designed to run forever.

Is there a way to get back this information from the net-snmp library?
 I would like to be able to either send a trap or write out a message
to a log stating the problem (and the three relevant values: engineId,
engineBoots, and engineTime).  This way, our customers could
pro-actively address a problem that would result in zero SNMP
communication.

If they cannot repair the problem on their side, is there a way to
instruct net-snmp to destroy its beliefs about a certain SNMPv3 engine
ID?

These two capabilities would make supporting SNMPv3 much easier for
both ourselves and our customers.

Thanks,
Doug

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