[mrtg] SNMPv3 - Net_SNMP Issues

[Daniel McDonald]

Just remove the checks in /usr/sbin/cfgmaker around line 1492.


On 7/1/11 1:36 PM, "johnathan falk" <johnathan.falk at gmail.com> wrote:

> I don't understand the point of forcing the specification of the "engineID" in
> cfgmaker.  Snmpwalk, and pretty much everything else on the system does not
> require it. In fact, in the man page for Net-SNMP/snmpcmd it says:
> 
>  -e engineID  Set the authoritative (security) engineID used for SNMPv3
> REQUEST messages, given as a hexadecimal string (optionally prefixed by "0x").
>  It is typically not necessary to specify this engine ID, as  it  will usually
>  be discovered automatically.
> 
> I don't know if that was overlooked or what but it seems extremely asinine to
> have to find the engineID for all of our devices. Is there a way around this?
> Theoretically you should be able to leave this blank and let the system
> auto-discover it per device. However, if you do that it gives an error that it
> is required. 
> 
> In the documentation it specifies that the field is optional: "In a SNMPv3
> message, the contextEngineID and contextName are included as part of the
> scopedPDU.  All methods that generate a SNMP message optionally take a
> B<--contextengineid> and B<--contextname>
> argument to configure these fields."
> 
> Any assistance getting around this would be appreciated.

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