The only workaround I can suggest is for the subagents to send AgentX traps
via the master agent, allowing the master agent to apply the right
engineBoots and engineTime values.
Bill
On Sun, Jun 1, 2014 at 11:25 PM, Sai krishna <saikris...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have an SNMP master agent and a couple of subagents and they share
> the same EngineID. The subagents send the traps directly to the
> configured destinations. With SNMPv3, there are additional parameters
> - engineBoots and engineTime - to maintain the timeliness of the SNMP
> PDU. If the main agent goes for a restart, the engineBoots is
> incremented for it. The subagent will still continue to use its copy
> of the parameters. The trap receiver, say snmptrapd, will
> initialize/update its session with the incoming trap and if the
> subagent sends the trap (with the older value for engineBoots), the
> receiver discards it.
>
> Is there a mechanism to avoid such a scenario? Or, will it help
> setting the contextName to a different value for the subagent so that
> the trap receiver will treat it as a different session? I did search
> the net for it and stumbled upon this:
>
> http://sourceforge.net/p/net-snmp/mailman/message/28627499/
>
> The OP must have probably faced a similar but I couldn't find any
> workaround. Any thoughts?
>
> --
> Regards,
> Sai
>
>
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