Re: Engine ID discovery

2010-04-07 Thread sanjaykumar
Hi Dave and Wes, So do I conclude my requirement as follow: Requirement: As I do the discovery to send the inform request Conclusion: 1. I will send the inform request for engine ID probeing 2. Inform request will be framed as describe in RFC 3414 "This may be accomplished by generating a

Re: Engine ID discovery

2010-04-07 Thread Wes Hardaker
On Wed, 07 Apr 2010 12:44:07 +0530, sanjaykumar sanjay.ku...@globaledgesoft.com said: s So do I conclude my requirement as follow: s Requirement: As I do the discovery to send the inform request s Conclusion: s 1. I will send the inform request for engine ID probeing s 2. Inform request will

Re: Engine ID discovery

2010-04-07 Thread Wes Hardaker
On Tue, 6 Apr 2010 12:29:58 -0700, Mike Ayers mike_ay...@tva.tvworks.com said: MA Awww... time to dig back into the deep stuff... there may be two MA authoritative entities for these transactions. I'll dig in and see MA what I get. There is two authoritative engines. I wrote a whole

RE: Engine ID discovery

2010-04-06 Thread Mike Ayers
From: sanjaykumar [mailto:sanjay.ku...@globaledgesoft.com] Sent: Monday, April 05, 2010 11:05 PM I am going through the Engine ID discovery code. Could someone explain me about this concept ?? When does it Required ?? How does Engine ID discovery process take place ? Does it is

Re: Engine ID discovery

2010-04-06 Thread Dave Shield
On 6 April 2010 07:04, sanjaykumar sanjay.ku...@globaledgesoft.com wrote:            I am going through the Engine ID discovery code. Could someone explain me about this concept ?? In order to use SNMPv3, it's necessary to know the engineID of the agent (or strictly speaking, the authoritative

Re: Engine ID discovery

2010-04-06 Thread sanjaykumar
Dave Shield wrote: On 6 April 2010 07:04, sanjaykumar sanjay.ku...@globaledgesoft.com wrote: I am going through the "Engine ID discovery" code. Could someone explain me about this concept ?? In order to use SNMPv3, it's necessary to know the "engineID" of the agent

Re: Engine ID discovery

2010-04-06 Thread Dave Shield
On 6 April 2010 10:09, sanjaykumar sanjay.ku...@globaledgesoft.com wrote: So we are sending the inform with WRONG engine ID, once we receive the REPORT then we update the required data-structure then RESENT the inform request and it is working fine.  Does it correct approach ??? That's

Re: Engine ID discovery

2010-04-06 Thread sanjaykumar
Hi, I have a real time situation. Suppose I have to send inform to an ip addr. On that ip addr, snmptrapd is not running. Approach 1. If we send get request with engine id NULL(engine id discovery process) , then no response will come. Lets assume our retry is 3, then we will send 3 get

Re: Engine ID discovery

2010-04-06 Thread Dave Shield
On 6 April 2010 11:04, sanjaykumar sanjay.ku...@globaledgesoft.com wrote: Suppose I have to send inform to an ip addr. On that ip addr, snmptrapd is not running. Then there's nothing to accept the notification. Approach 1. If we send get request with engine id NULL(engine id discovery

Re: Engine ID discovery

2010-04-06 Thread Wes Hardaker
On Tue, 6 Apr 2010 11:17:21 +0100, Dave Shield d.t.shi...@liverpool.ac.uk said: Approach 1. If we send get request with engine id NULL(engine id discovery process) , then no response will come. Lets assume our retry is 3, then we will send 3 get request for engine id discovery. As response

Re: Engine ID discovery

2010-04-06 Thread Dave Shield
On 6 April 2010 20:02, Mike Ayers mike_ay...@tva.tvworks.com wrote: The authoritative engine for an inform is the sending engine Is it? I believe that the authoritative engine for an Inform was the notification receiver (just like any other acknowledged request). The authoritative engine for a

RE: Engine ID discovery

2010-04-06 Thread Mike Ayers
From: dave.shi...@googlemail.com [mailto:dave.shi...@googlemail.com] On Behalf Of Dave Shield Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 3:17 AM Mike - do you wish to comment further? I just think the OP should quit screwing around in the dark. RFC3414, section 4 explains how to get an

RE: Engine ID discovery

2010-04-06 Thread Mike Ayers
From: dave.shi...@googlemail.com [mailto:dave.shi...@googlemail.com] On Behalf Of Dave Shield Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 12:06 PM On 6 April 2010 20:02, Mike Ayers mike_ay...@tva.tvworks.com wrote: The authoritative engine for an inform is the sending engine Is it? I believe that the