Re: RMON fun

Juergen Schoenwaelder (schoenw@cs.utwente.nl)
Fri, 6 Sep 1996 16:20:51 +0200

Ng Pheng Siong <ngps@pacific.net.sg> said:

Ng> I attempted to walk the etherStatsTable of a Netscout somewhere on
Ng> my net; said Netscout is normally managed by its management app.

Ng> The output came back, then I get the following message:

Ng> bgerror failed to handle background error.
Ng> Original error: invalid command name "840163127"
Ng> Error in bgerror: grab failed: another application has grab

Ng> Concurrently a dialog box pops up to say 'invalid command name
Ng> "840163127"'. Dismissing the dialog brings up another, ad
Ng> nausem. The number thought of as the "command name" changes.

Ng> Turns out this number is the content of an etherStatsOwner.<index>
Ng> entry, like "netadmin@netman [840163126]". Looks like Scotty is
Ng> trying to evaluate the string in the [] brackets? Any quick fix?

Which walk did you use? There are different walks in the browsers and
there is the standalone snmpwalk example script etc. The scripts
should not evaluate snmp values - this is a big security hole and I
would like to get it fixed.
Juergen

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