Re: Need of snmpDaemon while sending snmp traps

2014-11-28 Thread Pushpa Thimmaiah
Thank You Wes Hardaker and Pranesh. This information is very helpful. So both snmpDaemon and snmptrap able to send traps out and can be used either of them according to situation. On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 7:51 AM, Wes Hardaker < harda...@users.sourceforge.net> wrote: > Pranesh Kulkarni writes

RE: snmpd.conf and 'sys*' Configuration Directives

2014-11-28 Thread David Hauck
Hi Wes, I see you're trying to catch up on some queries to net-snmp-users - thx. Please see below. On Fri, 28 Nov 2014 at 18:26:00, Wes Hardaker wrote: > David Hauck writes: > >> It seems that there is no way to "reset" the sys* configuration >> directives (sysName/sysDescr/sysLocation/sysCo

Re: Is Net-SNMP linux namespace aware?

2014-11-28 Thread Wes Hardaker
Ani A writes: > Is Net-SNMP namespace aware? if so, can anyone please point me to any > documents/man > pages/configs. I'm not actually sure what you mean by "namespace aware". namespace is used in a large number of contexts, and it's not normally used with SNMP so can you clarify the question

Re: Error: Couldn't open a master agentx socket to listen on (tcp:localhost:1705):

2014-11-28 Thread Wes Hardaker
yuvaraj r writes: > Error: Couldn't open a master agentx socket to listen on > (tcp:localhost:1705): You probably have another application using that port. Try "lsof -i tcp:1705" to figure out what is using it. -- Wes Hardaker Parsons --

Re: snmpd.conf and 'sys*' Configuration Directives

2014-11-28 Thread Wes Hardaker
David Hauck writes: > It seems that there is no way to "reset" the sys* configuration > directives (sysName/sysDescr/sysLocation/sysContact If you have set them with an snmpset, then the persistent state is stored in /var/net-snmp/snmpd.conf by default (though some linux distributions move it to

Re: snmptrap under IPv6 after setting clientaddr

2014-11-28 Thread Wes Hardaker
Rizwan Ansari writes: > I looked into IPv4 code and feel like same code is missing under IPv6 > section. Thanks for the patch! Can you submit it to our patch database to make sure it doesn't get lost? http://www.net-snmp.org/patches/ -- Wes Hardaker Parsons ---

Re: Need of snmpDaemon while sending snmp traps

2014-11-28 Thread Wes Hardaker
Pranesh Kulkarni writes: > snmpd -- > SNMP Agent Daemon which sends the trapĀ  > snmptrapd -> SNMP Trap Daemon which recevies the trap > snmptrap -> Application which sends the trap Pranesh is right: Functionally snmptrap sends a manual trap to a given destination and it has nothing to do with t

Re: SNMP Trap interval

2014-11-28 Thread Wes Hardaker
"Stephan Alz" writes: > I would prefer sending an SNMP trap right when an event happens > (latest within 30 seconds) for the same reason why the guy detailing > it in the article. You can use the -r flag on the monitor line to set the number of seconds between the internal poll to see if there i

Re: snmpv3 traffic

2014-11-28 Thread Wes Hardaker
Asia Imbiss writes: > i know that it's possible to send and receive messages without using a > virtual machine. > but i haven't figured out yet how to do it...can anyone help?? The tutorial on this page: http://www.net-snmp.org/wiki/index.php/TUT:SNMPv3_Options Pretty clearly describes ever