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- From: Richard.Kooijman@dnpap.et.tudelft.nl (Richard Kooijman)
- Subject: Re: Sun Net Manager with SNMP agent
- Message-ID: <richard.725061147@dutepp13>
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- Organization: Delft University of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering
- References: <5579@daily-planet.concordia.ca>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 21:52:27 GMT
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- lambert@vlsi.concordia.ca (Francois Lambert) writes:
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-
- > I've tried running the snmp agents (snmp, snmp-midII and sun) with
- >snm-1.1 and I can't seem to get any response from the requested system. I'm not
- >even trying on a remote system, my request is for the same host I'm ruuning on!
- >For example, if I use the "Set request" option from the host's glyph and select
- >"Get" from the request window I get "(no values retrieved)" for ALL possible
- >combinations of agent-group. Same thing occurs when I run from the prompt say:
- >snm_cmd -a snmp-mibII -g system -n sysDescr -s, I get "no response from system".
- >According to the user manual, this means the snmp agent is not running, but I
- >know it's running. What about the snmp.hosts file? Should there be any special
- >settings for my host? Aren't the default values good enough? There is not much
- >information available on what the "read-community" and "write-community" field
- >can or should be and what they entail...
-
-
- The problem with the snmp.hosts file is that once you have 1 host
- in it, you will have the define all other hosts too in the future. From
- then on, no defaults apply anymore.
-
- Are you sure the community name is the right one?
-
-
- Richard.
-
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