how to allow only 1 SNMP manager to access SNMP agent ?

2011-10-24 Thread ning ji
this is my understanding, pls correct me if it's wrong. the SNMP agent is running in the embedded linux system in the lab, i'm sitting in the cube to get SNMP info in my desktop pc (SNMP manager). how should i configure the snmpd.conf in the embedded system, so it only passes info back to

RE: Set IPADDRS value

2011-10-24 Thread Naama Bar Menachem
Hi all I have found a solution to my problem. Instead of receiving the new value using "requests->requestvb->val.integer" I used "requests->requestvb->val.string" which is actually an array of characters representing the IP address as follow: ip = (u_char*)requests->requestvb-

RE: net-snmp security conundrum

2011-10-24 Thread Gary Dunlap
My implementation is on a local linux system, also for a product appliance, and I don't have the notion of a remote station updating it. So it's not updated via MIBs. I let v1/v2c users discover MIB-II info but restrict them from the rest, if there are any SNMPv3 users defined. I'd be interes

RE: net-snmp security conundrum

2011-10-24 Thread Gary Dunlap
I tried a similar snmpusm command, and it's rejected with an authorization error, with "access denied to that object". I don't really know enough about usm/vacm, etc. to know what prevents another user from being created. If there's a security hole here I'd definitely be interested in knowing

RE: net-snmp security conundrum

2011-10-24 Thread Gary Dunlap
From: Gary Dunlap Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2011 2:03 PM To: 'Brian Jones' Cc: '-snmp-us...@lists.sourceforge.net' Subject: RE: net-snmp security conundrum Are you talking about snmpd? I just edit/recreate snmpd.conf to match the users defined in the GUI, then give snmpd the interrupt to re-

snmptrapd vs MySQL

2011-10-24 Thread lukaswu
Hi, I found in a documentation that snmptrapd is able to place data into MySQL database. I would be more than happy to learn more about it. Thank you for any piece of information. Kind regards. lukaswu -- The demand f