Hi All,
I am using net-snmp-5.3.0.1. I have
very basic doubt about engineID's. Which goes as below.
From net-snmp documents I found
out few things about engineID.
(1) if u put some command say :
rwuser ---> in
/usr/local/share/snmp/snmpd.conf
createUser myuser
MD5 "mypassword" DES password ---> in /var/net-snmp/snmpd.conf.
when you enable
snmpd I can see that password and username gets encrypted. At the end of
the file(/var/net-snmp/snmpd.conf) I can see a line which contains
oldengineID 0x800100023 (some
system generated hex value).
(2) Also I got another configuration
say
engineID 0x0120304050 (some valid hex value) in /usr/local/share/snmp/snmpd.conf
and
If I put
createUser -e
0x0120304050 myuser MD5 "mypassword" DES
password in
/var/net-snmp/snmpd.conf.
for both of the above cases I cud
successfully query and get response. Now my doubt goes as
below:
(1) Out of above two which is the local
engineID and which is remote engineID. plz let me know if there is some other
engineID configuration.
(2) whats the need or use of
these local and remote engine ID.
Thanx in Advance.
Regards,
Raghavendra. S
