Thanks Pushpa! I will go through the link.

Regards,
Sumit

On 28 July 2016 at 16:55, Pushpa Thimmaiah <pushpa.thimma...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Sumit,
>
> . Refer RFC https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2571.txt for engineID format.
> -------------------------------------------------
> -------------------------------------------------
>
> snmpEngineID has a length of 12 octets.
>
> 1st bit: either '0' or '1' . '1' if you follow below mentioned formats
>
> 1-4 octets: binary equivalent of the agent's SNMP management private 
> enterprise number
>
> 5th octet : Type of next(6-12th) octet ipaddress, mac address, random number.
>
>             Eg: If 5th octet=3 then 6-12th octet is mac-id of the host.
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Since SNMP engineID is unique to the host/machine on which snmpapp running ,  
> its better to get value for
> option'-e' from external code.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Pushpa.T
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 4:24 PM, Sumit Mhatre <sumit.mhatr...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>        I am using Net-SNMP for generating SNMP traps in my product. So, I
>> am just shipping snmptrap.exe which I invoke with appropriate parameters.
>> Well, I did not face any issue with SNMP v2c.
>>  But with SNMP v3, I am not getting:
>>
>> 1.  What value should I put for -e option i.e. EngineID ?
>> 2. Or can I set/define it to random number?
>>
>> Note: I am not running(nor shipping) snmpd as I just want to add trap
>> capability.
>>
>> Please suggest.
>>
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