The agent(node2) is also net-snmp The node1 (master) also has its agent of its own right?
Nishant On Sun, 26 Sep 2021, 06:53 Bill Fenner, <fen...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 6:43 AM Nishant Nayan <nayan.nishant2...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Thanks for the suggestions, I have tried that and I could see the data >> sent and data received, however I am interested in the receiver part, as to >> how the date is prepared by the receiver(node 2) based on sender's request >> and then sent back to sender(node1), >> > > The terms that we use in the SNMP world to describe these entities are > that the manager sends a request to the agent, who then sends a response > back to the manager. You are asking how the agent builds its response. > What kind of agent is it? Is it also net-snmp, or is it something else? > > >> specifically how the error index and error status is getting >> prepared/calculated from receiver side, is there a way to debug this? >> > > RFC3416 talks about the rules for setting them - e.g., general definitions > in section 4.1 > https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3416#section-4.1 > and specifics about how they are set when handling a GetRequest in section > 4.2.1 > https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3416#section-4.2.1 > > Bill > > > >> >> >> Thanks >> Nishant >> >> On Mon, 6 Sept 2021 at 19:34, Bill Fenner <fen...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> By the way, I wanted to mention - I noticed your example was using >>> SNMPv1. SNMPv1 has been obsolete since 2002 (when the RFC was moved to >>> historic status). You should ideally be using SNMPv3, with its >>> authorization and privacy improvements, and if not, at least use SNMPv2 >>> which is not obsolete. >>> >>> Bill >>> >>>
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