Hosts.allow/hosts.deny relates to snmpd

2004-07-20 Thread Fong Tsui
My understanding is snmpd is using tcpwrap lib. So, if we can use hosts.allow/hosts.deny to control the access. What I have tried the following 4 steps: 1) If both hosts.allow and hosts.deny are not set (emtpy), it can access MIB registered in snmpd and the subagents behind it. 2) If hosts.den

Re: How getbulk access checking works?

2004-07-20 Thread Dave Shield
> As the title says, how the bulk-get and bulk-walk > works? Well, both of these commands are actually just wrappers round the SNMP GETBULK protocol operation, so there's no inherent difference between them. It's just that the "bulkwalk" will repeat the request and/or truncate the output to mat

How getbulk access checking works?

2004-07-20 Thread jeff x
Hello, As the title says, how the bulk-get and bulk-walk works? More precisly, does the agent check all the access of the requested oids , at one same time, or , is each access on oid are checked one by one. In fact I would like to know how the VACM is used in case of bulk-request Thanks, Jeff

Re: Info about Traps

2004-07-20 Thread Dave Shield
[ First - *please* don't mail me privately, without copying any responses to the mailing list. I don't have the time or inclination to offer private, unpaid, SNMP consultancy. Keep discussions to the list, where others can both learn and offer advice. T

Re: Help! snmp error

2004-07-20 Thread Dave Shield
> My community is "svpub" and I can use this community to run a normal > mrtg system. > However, when I tried to get CPU, RAM etc information for my mrtg, the > system prompted below error. > Received SNMP response with error code > error status: noSuchName > index 1 (OID: 1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.11

Re: Info about Traps

2004-07-20 Thread Dave Shield
> How i can receive the traps that are generated by any agent > 1) usding command line arguments > 2) or by programmatically Have a look at the application "snmptrapd". That's the tool we provide for accepting and handling traps. The source code (apps/snmptrapd.c) should also give some guidelines