Re: oldEngineID changes upon restart of snmpd

2017-02-08 Thread Pushpa Thimmaiah
Hi, engineID value is 'random' by default so whenever snmpd restarts , there will be new engineID. It can be reconfigured (Add keyword 'engineIDType' in etc/snmp/snmpd.conf) to be based on MAC then engineID will be constant. engineIDType 1|2|3 specifies that the engineID should be built from the

oldEngineID changes upon restart of snmpd

2017-01-20 Thread Gerrit Avenant
I am running net-snmp 5.7.3 on an embedded linux platform. It seems to me my oldEngineID is changed upon each restart of the daemon. I stop the daemon. I create a user in the persistent snmpd.conf through createUser. I restart the daemon and oldEngineID matches that of the usmUser created. I c