Re: community and scotty
Thoralf Freitag (Thoralf.Freitag@isst.fhg.de)
Mon, 10 Jun 1996 15:39:39 +0200
On Jun 7, 5:42pm, Juergen Schoenwaelder wrote:
> Subject: Re: community and scotty
>
> Thoralf Freitag <Thoralf.Freitag@isst.fhg.de> wrote:
>
> > I=B4ve a really interesting. I try to use scotty on a small test
network.=
> > Different devices on it (Tektronix XP419C X-Terminals, a Cisco 4500, a
> > Cabletron 9E13x ...). I` using a community like this B462472UHR an try
th=
> > e
> > folling
>
> > % set s [ snmp session -address pandora -community B462472UHR]
> > snmp0
> > % $s set [list [list sysContact.0 "Rechnerbetrieb ISST" ] ]
> > {1.3.6.1.2.1.1.4.0 {OCTET STRING} {Rechnerbetrieb ISST}}
>
> > Yes, it works fine, except at the Tektronix.
>
> > % set s [ snmp session -address tentakel -community B462472UHR]
> > snmp1
> > % $s set [list [list sysContact.0 Rechnerbetrieb ISST]]
> > noResponse
>
> > If I look at the snmpInBadCommunityNames the number is 4 numbers more
tha=
> > n
> > before. ( One query and 3 retries ? ) Why ? It IS the right community !
>
> > My first idea was, the Tektronix SNMP implementation is broken, but at
wo=
> > rks
> > really good if the management station is a HP Open View.
>
> Are you running scotty on the same host as HP Open View? Some agents
> don't accept set requests from IP addresses they don't like.
Thanks, it was my mistake. A simple entry in the config file was the causer.
[...]
>
> Juergen
>-- End of excerpt from Juergen Schoenwaelder
Thoralf
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