Thanks Dave, appreciate all your help!!!
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 6:20 AM, Dave Shield <[email protected]>wrote:
> 2009/1/26 bigschwansb <[email protected]>:
> > I found the 3rd party server is also attempting to delete the
> "TargetAddr,
> > Notify, and TargetParam" tables in one shot, unfortunately this is
> failing
> > because they are including a destroy for an "SNMP-COMMUNITY-MIB" in this
> set
> > attempt. This module does not appear to exist in 5.4.2?
>
> Correct.
>
> We don't actually use the Community MIB - we've got our own private
> equivalent
> (developed shortly before the Community MIB was defined, and covering
> slightly
> different functionality, which is why we've never switched).
>
>
> > I've been able to reproduce the destroy failure with snmpset using
> > something like this, removing snmpCommunityStatus portion works,
> > leaving the line in fails...
>
> That makes sense.
> SNMP SET requests are meant to be all-or-nothing.
> If any one element fails, the whole request should fail.
>
>
>
> > On another thread it looks like you had done some work towards
> implementing
> > the Community Mib, but may not be ready yet?
>
> There's no immediate plans to support the Community MIB - no.
>
>
> > In the meaintime any ideas on a
> > quick fix to disregard the set on the snmpCommunityStatus so the other
> > destroys take affect? I do not have access to the 3rd party NMS :-(.
>
> The best approach would be to drop this varbind from the request.
> But if you don't have access to the NMS, then this may not be an option.
>
> A quick-n-dirty workaround might be to "implement" the Community MIB.
> Try a simple "pass" script, covering the whole of the snmpCommunityTable,
> which simply returns success for any request, regardless of OID.
>
> That might confuse anything that tried to walk the table, but should
> at least allow the deletion requests to work.
>
> Dave
>
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