Re: dynamically changing the SnmpEngineID

2011-06-30 Thread Wes Hardaker
> On Thu, 30 Jun 2011 12:22:03 +0100, "Lewis Adam-VNQM87" > said: LA> FYI, this seems to work. [LCD needs to be updated to reflect the new LA> engine ID]. Glad you got it worked out, and thanks for posting the success story so others can learn from it! -- Wes Hardaker Please mail all r

RE: dynamically changing the SnmpEngineID

2011-06-30 Thread Lewis Adam-VNQM87
orge.net > Subject: RE: dynamically changing the SnmpEngineID > > Okay, I've coded what I hoped would work and it doesn't. When I change > the engine ID (without rebooting), the SNMP requests fail with "Unknown > engine ID" > > Roughly speaking, on

RE: dynamically changing the SnmpEngineID

2011-06-29 Thread Lewis Adam-VNQM87
and recreated? Adam. > -Original Message- > From: Wes Hardaker [mailto:harda...@users.sourceforge.net] > Sent: Monday, June 27, 2011 6:26 PM > To: Lewis Adam-VNQM87 > Cc: net-snmp-coders@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: dynamically changing the SnmpEngineID > > >>&

Re: dynamically changing the SnmpEngineID

2011-06-27 Thread Wes Hardaker
> On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 15:49:01 +0100, "Lewis Adam-VNQM87" > said: LA> I think our main concern was the possibility of memory leaks. Being an LA> embedded product, it's not simply a case of killing the process and LA> restarting it so while we want to offer the flexibility of updating LA>

RE: dynamically changing the SnmpEngineID

2011-06-27 Thread Lewis Adam-VNQM87
Thanks for the reply Wes. I think our main concern was the possibility of memory leaks. Being an embedded product, it's not simply a case of killing the process and restarting it so while we want to offer the flexibility of updating ip-based, mac-based, and text-string based SnmpEngineIDs, we also

Re: dynamically changing the SnmpEngineID

2011-06-23 Thread Wes Hardaker
> On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 11:45:23 +0100, "Lewis Adam-VNQM87" > said: LA> In our agent [based on 5.4.2.1 in an embedded environment] we have the LA> ability to change the ip address without rebooting the unit. As a LA> general question, are there any issues with updating the SNMPEngineID LA>

dynamically changing the SnmpEngineID

2011-06-22 Thread Lewis Adam-VNQM87
Greetings all, In our agent [based on 5.4.2.1 in an embedded environment] we have the ability to change the ip address without rebooting the unit. As a general question, are there any issues with updating the SNMPEngineID (and subsequently snmpEngineBoots and snmpEngineTime) dynamically? I know th