Thanks Dave for clarification.
With regards,
Biswajit
> Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2011 10:26:19 +0100
> Subject: Re: Reg: RMON MIB Object eventCommunity
> From: d.t.shi...@liverpool.ac.uk
> To: biswajit.man...@live.com
> CC: net-snmp-coders@lists.sourceforge.net
>
> On 20 August 2011 06:18, Biswajit Mandal <biswajit.man...@live.com> wrote:
> > This is not related to net-snmp, but general RMON MIB query regarding the
> > SNMP object eventCommunity in RMON MIB, From the RFC, it seems to me that
> > this is used while sending traps only to those trap receivers, if the
> > community string is configued as eventCommunity.
>
> > As SNMPv3 does not have community string as part of TRAP PDU, does it mean
> > that the traps for RMON will not be sent to snmpv3 configured trap
> > receivers?, or this object interpretation is different?
>
> The first thing is to understand the history of these various elements.
> The RMON-MIB is defined in RFC 2819, dating from 2000.
> This is some four years before the definition of SNMPv3,
> so it's not too surprising that the RMON structure doesn't
> handle anything other than community-based SNMP.
>
> The event handling aspects of this MIB have effectively been superceded
> by the DisMan Event MIB, which is significantly more flexible, and can
> handle SNMPv3 notifications (as well as not tying the event configuration
> to a particular set of MIB objects).
> If you are interested in automatic detection and reporting of issues,
> then I'd suggest you look at the Event MIB, rather than RMON.
>
> This also has the significant advantage that it is implemented within
> the Net-SNMP agent. (Which the RMON MIB essentially is not!)
>
> Dave
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