Re: Where is this documented?

Juergen Schoenwaelder (schoenw@cs.utwente.nl)
Wed, 18 Dec 1996 00:49:34 +0100

Cameron Laird <claird@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> said:

Cameron> I believe that a TRAP %V specification evaluates to this list:
Cameron> # 0-th: sysUpTime
Cameron> # 1st: snmpTrapOID
Cameron> # 2nd to n-1-th: variable data
Cameron> # n-th: snmpTrapEnterprise
Cameron> I confess my ignorance: I've thought this peculiar to Scotty
Cameron> (I know, for example, that Juergen upgraded the snmpTrapOID
Cameron> values in 2.1.? to include such prefixes as "SNMPv2-MIB!"),
Cameron> but perhaps this little table is somehow implicit in SNMP. In
Cameron> any case, my question is: where is this documented?

The mapping is defined in RFC 1908 section 3.1.2 paragraph (2). I
added a pointer to this RFC to the snmp(n) man page because I agree
that this mapping is not obvious if you are not familiar with the
SNMPv2 specs.

Juergen

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