RE: When will be next release of net-snmp?

2005-09-06 Thread Grasic Igor
...thanks, Dave for the exhaustive answer and of course, other guys (Robert, Thomas,...) Today is sun over my land again. :) My boss put gun away and saved bullets for some other opportunity. : > TA> > The easiest approach would probably to blitz the bug database > TA> > for both 5.2.x and t

NET-SNMP upgrade questions

2005-09-06 Thread Nhan Nguyen
Hi, I plan on upgrading from the UCD v4.2.6 to the latest version of NET-SNMP. I have the following questions, and hope you can help: - What is the latest version of the stack recommended for use? Is it v5.1.3.1 or v5.2.1.2? Both versions are listed on sourceforge.net. Logically, I'll jus

Re: libtool versioning

2005-09-06 Thread Thomas Anders
Robert Story wrote: On Tue, 06 Sep 2005 17:49:16 +0200 Thomas wrote: TA> OK, so 8 is just reserved for 5.1.x "just in case"? I'd be fine with TA> that, as opposed to change 5.1.x immediately (which also Dave and Jochen TA> voted against). Did we reach consensus here? =:o Well, the issue is wh

Re: libtool versioning

2005-09-06 Thread Robert Story
On Tue, 06 Sep 2005 17:49:16 +0200 Thomas wrote: TA> OK, so 8 is just reserved for 5.1.x "just in case"? I'd be fine with TA> that, as opposed to change 5.1.x immediately (which also Dave and Jochen TA> voted against). Did we reach consensus here? =:o Well, the issue is whether or not there is a

Re: When will be next release of net-snmp?

2005-09-06 Thread Robert Story
On Tue, 06 Sep 2005 16:51:26 +0200 Thomas wrote: TA> > The easiest approach would probably to blitz the bug database TA> > for both 5.2.x and the main development line in parallel, TA> > and run the two release cycles more-or-less together. TA> > TA> > Does that sound sensible? TA> TA> Yes, 5.2.2

RE: default mibs for 5.3?

2005-09-06 Thread Bruce Shaw
>Just wanted to check for objections to augmenting the default mib list. I'd like to: >- add host to the default list agreed >- add disman/even-mib to the default list "disman event/mib" agreed >- default the mfd-rewrites to enabled What is the impact of this? This communication is intende

Re: libtool versioning

2005-09-06 Thread Thomas Anders
Robert Story wrote: On Mon, 05 Sep 2005 23:14:43 +0200 Thomas wrote: TA> Why jump up to c:r:a==9:0:0? Because that's what Wes proposed. Initially, I thought of just going to 6:0:0, since everything currently uses lib*.so.5, but if you look at the previous version, you'll see that 5 is determined

Managing software with SNMP

2005-09-06 Thread Le Gall Jean-Patrick (Skysoft ATM)
Title: Message Hi all,   I want to manage a software using snmp. This software manages values like for example track_Number I have extended my private mib to add the new values. My extented values are read-only because I wanted that only my sub-agent is allow to modifyt this values. I have

Re: When will be next release of net-snmp?

2005-09-06 Thread Thomas Anders
Dave Shield wrote: That sounds a sensible timescale. What about the 5.2.x line? The last "real" release of that code was back in January. (OK, we released 5.2.1.2 in June, but that wasn't a proper release in quite the same way). The easiest approach would probably to blitz the bug database for

Re: abstraction layers and directory hierarchy

2005-09-06 Thread Dave Shield
On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 10:29 -0400, Robert Story wrote: > DS> The other thing that might help is a move towards greater use of > DS> the Hardware Abstraction Layer that I started to put in place a > DS> couple of months ago. It currently only covers CPU and memory > DS> (and only for Linux boxes),

Re: rfc: default mibs for 5.3?

2005-09-06 Thread Dave Shield
On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 10:23 -0400, Robert Story wrote: > DS> So you're probably right: for > DS> 5.3, just enable it on known good architectures. > > Do we know what those are? Ummm: $ cd agent/mibgroup/host $ $ grep ifdef *.c | grep -v '[A-Z]' | sort -k 2 | uniq hr_swrun.

Re: "fat" OCTET STRINGs ?

2005-09-06 Thread Robert Story
On Tue, 06 Sep 2005 08:55:52 +0100 Dave wrote: DS> On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 16:22 +1000, Elisabeth Gloria wrote: DS> > We are discovering some MIB. It would have an DS> > object with syntax OCTET STRING (SIZE (512)). DS> > The question is: will it be a problem from points of DS> > view of SNMP and net

Re: When will be next release of net-snmp?

2005-09-06 Thread Dave Shield
On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 10:19 -0400, Robert Story wrote: > DS> But we seem to be making noises about releasing the current > DS> development code as version 5.3, > > It's a pretty safe bet that pre-releases for 5.3 will start in early October > for a November release. This should be considered fair

Re: libtool versioning (was: Re: CVS: net-snmp Makefile.top,5.17.2.3)

2005-09-06 Thread Robert Story
On Mon, 05 Sep 2005 23:14:43 +0200 Thomas wrote: TA> Robert Story wrote: TA> > move to libtool recommended versioning scheme TA> TA> Why jump up to c:r:a==9:0:0? Because that's what Wes proposed. Initially, I thought of just going to 6:0:0, since everything currently uses lib*.so.5, but if you lo

abstraction layers and directory hierarchy

2005-09-06 Thread Robert Story
DS> The other thing that might help is a move towards greater use of DS> the Hardware Abstraction Layer that I started to put in place a DS> couple of months ago. It currently only covers CPU and memory DS> (and only for Linux boxes), but it's a step in the right direction. I noticed this when i

Re: rfc: default mibs for 5.3?

2005-09-06 Thread Robert Story
On Tue, 06 Sep 2005 09:21:45 +0100 Dave wrote: DS> On Mon, 2005-09-05 at 15:50 -0400, Robert Story wrote: DS> > I'd argue DS> > that it should be in the default list, and config_require used to weed DS> > out bits that don't have OS support. That's probably too much work, so DS> > it might just be

Re: When will be next release of net-snmp?

2005-09-06 Thread Robert Story
On Tue, 06 Sep 2005 10:52:59 +0100 Dave wrote: DS> > However, when is planned next version? DS> DS> Not sure (see above). DS> But we seem to be making noises about releasing the current DS> development code as version 5.3, It's a pretty safe bet that pre-releases for 5.3 will start in early Octob

RE: When will be next release of net-snmp?

2005-09-06 Thread Dave Shield
On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 11:15 +0200, Grasic Igor wrote: > ...now is next to me standing my boss with gun at my hand and I am writing > my last message to 'net-snmp-coders'... he insist to find out, when will be > next release of net-snmp... No idea, sorry. It was nice knowing you. What flowers would

RE: When will be next release of net-snmp?

2005-09-06 Thread Grasic Igor
...now is next to me standing my boss with gun at my hand and I am writing my last message to 'net-snmp-coders'... he insist to find out, when will be next release of net-snmp... ...:))) just kidding. But now, I have pretty unstable snmp system (because of known bugs). However, when is planned n

Re: session problems in a snmp application

2005-09-06 Thread Thomas Anders
Rafael Garabato wrote: I increased the tcpdump's snaplen as you asked. This time I didn't get the same problem as the time before. Only 2 packets are transmited each time the session is opened. That's exactly how the engineID discovery is supposed to work. So what happens now if you actually

Re: SNMP Forwarder Utility

2005-09-06 Thread Dave Shield
On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 12:04 +0530, Poojan Tanna wrote: > On Mon, 2005-09-05 at 15:38 +0100, Dave Shield wrote: > > Assuming that these traps used the enterprise OID .1.2.3.4.5, > > then you'd need snmptrapd.conf settings along the lines of: > > > > > >forward .1.2.3.4.5.0.110.10.10.1 >

Re: session problems in a snmp application

2005-09-06 Thread Dave Shield
On Mon, 2005-09-05 at 12:38 -0300, Rafael Garabato wrote: > I tried both versions in the computer where the client is but the > program is still unsuccessful. Do you think that the snmp version > 5.1.3.1, or 5.2.1.2 shoul be installed where the agent is? No - this change was concerned with how a c

Re: rfc: default mibs for 5.3?

2005-09-06 Thread Dave Shield
On Mon, 2005-09-05 at 15:50 -0400, Robert Story wrote: > DS> > - add host to the default list > DS> > DS> Globally, or on specific architectures? > > You mean there are still architectures which don't support it? Almost certainly. Much of the HostRes code is just as O/S-specific as the MIB-II

Re: proxy with a defined set of OIDs?

2005-09-06 Thread Dave Shield
On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 12:06 +0530, Ravi, Rajagopal Shanmugam (Rajagopal Shanmugam)** CTR ** wrote: > But is it possible to proxy the incoming request to different hosts > based on a defined set of OID values? Yes. That's how the proxy mechanism has always worked. The context-based selection is a

Re: getting v3 user name and community string in mib2c code

2005-09-06 Thread Dave Shield
On Mon, 2005-09-05 at 09:12 -0700, Wes Hardaker wrote: > 99.9% of the time people want to do that is because they want to do > something that contexts let you do or that VACM already lets you do. > Find a case where this isn't true ;-) DisMan :-) Dave -

Re: "fat" OCTET STRINGs ?

2005-09-06 Thread Dave Shield
On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 16:22 +1000, Elisabeth Gloria wrote: > We are discovering some MIB. It would have an > object with syntax OCTET STRING (SIZE (512)). > The question is: will it be a problem from points of > view of SNMP and net-snmp? Shouldn't be - no. The SMI syntax supports octet strings up