For my testing I added "proxy -v2c -c public udp:127.0.0.1:9 .1.3" in snmpd.conf file.. Unfortunately I still get "No Such Instance currently exists at this OID", for some time, whenever I restart the sub-agent.
On Wed, Sep 8, 2021 at 11:47 PM Bill Fenner <fen...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 3, 2021 at 3:43 AM Feroz <feroz.afs...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> My question is, is there a way to block an agent from responding to >> queries ( by timeout), till time the sub-agent connects to the agent. >> > > No, the master agent always lives under the impression that it knows > everything. You may be able to fake it out by giving it an unreachable > proxy, something like "proxy udp:127.0.0.1:9 .1.3", and then having the > agentx registration use a better priority so that it overrides the proxy > config for each subtree that agentx registers. However, this does use up > snmp server resources trying to proxy each request to something that will > not respond. > > This is an interesting problem, especially if you have multiple > sub-agents. What if you had one sub-agent that serves IP-MIB, and a > separate one that serves the system MIB? Would you want to ignore requests > until both subagents are connected? > > Bill > > -- Regards, Feroz Ahmed
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