I tried enabling SNMPv3 Informs on our Cisco devices for our v9.2H03 Spectrum servers and it looked like Spectrum had no idea what to do with them. I had to switch back to regular traps. I could have been my config, but I just thought I'd put that out there.
-K On Jan 23, 2012, at 9:42 AM, Lemmermann, Jan wrote: > I think what he meant is the snmpEngineID that Spectrum uses. Since Informs > need to be > acknowledged from the Management Station you need to specify the Management > Station's > engineID so that the device knows the acknowledgment came from the correct > device. > > In the past when Spectrum was using an independent SNMPdamon/proxy there was > a config-file for > this information. But that is history. > > I'm not even sure if the current release supports SNMPv3 Informs anyway. > Couldn't find any statements in the docs. > > What you could try is to run tcpdump on the SpectroSERVER while forcing the > device to send > out an Inform and then take a look what the SS is doing. Does it try to ACK > the inform? > If yes you should see the engineID in the dump. > > Regards, > Jan > > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Hilmar Preuße [mailto:[email protected]] > Gesendet: Montag, 23. Januar 2012 14:33 > An: spectrum > Betreff: Re: [spectrum] WG: SNMP V3 Inform traps > > On 23.01.2012 09:26, Hofmann, Berthold wrote: > > Hi, > >> We have the problem, on enterasys devices must a engineid >> defined, but what is the value in spectrum, which must >> defined on the enterasys switches. >> > The engine_ID must be unique in your network, there are no other limitation. > Spectrum will learn it from the device. > > RfC 2571 > > 3.1.1.1. snmpEngineID > > Within an administrative domain, an snmpEngineID is the unique and > unambiguous identifier of an SNMP engine. Since there is a one-to-one > association between SNMP engines and SNMP entities, it also uniquely > and unambiguously identifies the SNMP entity within that > administrative domain. Note that it is possible for SNMP entities in > different administrative domains to have the same value for > snmpEngineID. Federation of administrative domains may necessitate > assignment of new values. > > H. > -- > amasol Kundentag, 29. März 2012, Campus Neue Balan > > Hilmar Preuße amasol AG > Senior Consultant Campus Neue Balan > Tel +49 89 1894743-18 Claudius-Keller-Straße 3b > Fax +49 89 1894743-99 D-81669 München > eMail [email protected] http://www.amasol.de/ > > amasol Aktiengesellschaft für Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologie > Aufsichtsrat: Prof. Dr. Stephan Kaiser (Vorsitzender) > Vorstand: Wolfgang Bachmann, Stefan Deml, Thomas Dirsch, Frank Jahn > Johann Maurer > Amtsgericht München HRB 128327, Sitz der Gesellschaft München > > --- > To unsubscribe from spectrum, send email to [email protected] with the body: > unsubscribe spectrum [email protected] > > --- > To unsubscribe from spectrum, send email to [email protected] with the body: > unsubscribe spectrum [email protected] --- To unsubscribe from spectrum, send email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe spectrum [email protected]
