Re: Engine ID discovery

2010-04-07 Thread Wes Hardaker
> On Tue, 6 Apr 2010 12:29:58 -0700, "Mike Ayers" > said: MA> Awww... time to dig back into the deep stuff... there may be two MA> authoritative entities for these transactions. I'll dig in and see MA> what I get. There is two authoritative engines. I wrote a whole tutorial on the con

Re: Engine ID discovery

2010-04-07 Thread Wes Hardaker
> On Wed, 07 Apr 2010 12:44:07 +0530, sanjaykumar > said: s> So do I conclude my requirement as follow: s> Requirement: As I do the discovery to send the inform request s> Conclusion: s> 1. I will send the inform request for engine ID probeing s> 2. Inform request will be framed as desc

Re: Engine ID discovery

2010-04-07 Thread sanjaykumar
aker wrote: On Tue, 6 Apr 2010 11:17:21 +0100, Dave Shield said: Approach 1. If we send get request with engine id NULL(engine id discovery process) , then no response will come. Lets assume our retry is 3, then we will

RE: Engine ID discovery

2010-04-06 Thread Mike Ayers
> From: dave.shi...@googlemail.com [mailto:dave.shi...@googlemail.com] On > Behalf Of Dave Shield > Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 12:06 PM > On 6 April 2010 20:02, Mike Ayers wrote: > > The authoritative engine for an inform is the sending engine > > Is it? > I believe that the authoritative eng

RE: Engine ID discovery

2010-04-06 Thread Mike Ayers
> From: dave.shi...@googlemail.com [mailto:dave.shi...@googlemail.com] On > Behalf Of Dave Shield > Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 3:17 AM > Mike - do you wish to comment further? I just think the OP should quit screwing around in the dark. RFC3414, section 4 explains how to get an engi

Re: Engine ID discovery

2010-04-06 Thread Dave Shield
On 6 April 2010 20:02, Mike Ayers wrote: > The authoritative engine for an inform is the sending engine Is it? I believe that the authoritative engine for an Inform was the notification receiver (just like any other acknowledged request). The authoritative engine for a *trap* is the sender, sure

Re: Engine ID discovery

2010-04-06 Thread Wes Hardaker
>>>>> On Tue, 6 Apr 2010 11:17:21 +0100, Dave Shield >>>>> said: >> Approach 1. If we send get request with engine id NULL(engine id discovery >> process) , then no response will come. Lets assume our retry is 3, then we >> will send 3 get requ

Re: Engine ID discovery

2010-04-06 Thread Dave Shield
On 6 April 2010 11:04, sanjaykumar wrote: > Suppose I have to send inform to an ip addr. On that ip addr, snmptrapd is > not running. Then there's nothing to accept the notification. > Approach 1. If we send get request with engine id NULL(engine id discovery > process) , then

Re: Engine ID discovery

2010-04-06 Thread sanjaykumar
Hi,      I have a real time situation. Suppose I have to send inform to an ip addr. On that ip addr, snmptrapd is not running.     Approach 1. If we send get request with engine id NULL(engine id discovery process) , then no response will come. Lets assume our retry is 3, then we will send 3

Re: Engine ID discovery

2010-04-06 Thread Dave Shield
On 6 April 2010 10:09, sanjaykumar wrote: > So we are sending the inform with WRONG engine ID, > once we receive the REPORT then we update the required data-structure > then RESENT the inform request and it is working fine.  Does it correct > approach ??? That's essentially the same approach

Re: Engine ID discovery

2010-04-06 Thread sanjaykumar
Dave Shield wrote: On 6 April 2010 07:04, sanjaykumar wrote:            I am going through the "Engine ID discovery" code. Could someone explain me about this concept ?? In order to use SNMPv3, it's necessary to know the "engineID" of the ag

Re: Engine ID discovery

2010-04-06 Thread Dave Shield
On 6 April 2010 07:04, sanjaykumar wrote: >            I am going through the "Engine ID discovery" code. > Could someone explain me about this concept ?? In order to use SNMPv3, it's necessary to know the "engineID" of the agent (or strictly speaking, the "a

RE: Engine ID discovery

2010-04-05 Thread Mike Ayers
> From: sanjaykumar [mailto:sanjay.ku...@globaledgesoft.com] > Sent: Monday, April 05, 2010 11:05 PM > I am going through the "Engine ID discovery" code. > Could someone explain me about this concept ?? > When does it Required ?? > How does "Engine

Engine ID discovery

2010-04-05 Thread sanjaykumar
Hi All, I am going through the "Engine ID discovery" code. Could someone explain me about this concept ?? When does it Required ?? How does "Engine ID discovery" process take place ? Does it is standard or implementation depende