ok, firstly you need to understand that on Solaris 7 the mibiisa agent starts in
readonly mode by default. Why, I don't know.
The start command in /etc/snmp/conf/mibiisa.rsrc specifies a -r parameter, this
-r tells the agent to only accept read requests.
so remove the -r from the start command line in mibiisa.rsrc (eg command =
"/usr/lib/snmp/mibiisa -p $PORT")
After that, your snmpset should be accepted, the reason why you were probably
getting errors telling you that variable didn't exsist was due to the read only
restriction, you would also have the same problem if you used the wrong write
community string.
Just to recap on the master agent for those who don't know how it works, the
master agent is simply a relay agent, this issue with mibiisa has nothing to do
with the SEA. Since SUN provide a couple of agents (mibii and dmi ) alongside in
the SEA package, it looks like they are part of SEA, but they aren't really.
Even though this write problem is easy to fix for the mibiisa agent, it would be
a good idea to replace it with the UCD or empire agents as the sun agent doesn't
provide much information. For example, the empire agent can monitor log files
and send traps when thresholds are reached, you can request a list of installed
on a remote hosts and the agent will run pkginfo in the background and return a
table of installed software.
Mark :-)
Elizabeth_Bagley@tivoli.com on 05/02/2000 02:45:38
To: kerkwyk@COMTECH.COM.AU
cc: (bcc: Mark van Kerkwyk/Sydney/Com Tech/AU)
Subject Re: snmpdx agent on Solaris 7
:
Mark --
I'm glad to hear that you've been able to get this to work. If there's
any way you could take a look at the configurations that I'm trying
to use and provide assistance, I'd be grateful. Shanks has
a Solaris machine that accepted the SNMP set just fine. I poked
around on it and found that it's Sol 2.6 with SEA 1.0.2 installed. My
config is Sol 7 with SEA 1.0.3. I've tried a couple of different
/etc/snmp/conf configuration setups.
First, I used the standard unmodified defaults, which is
the same configuration that was in use on the successful 1.0.2 machine.
(I ran some diffs to make sure the files were all the same.)
Then, "SNMP set" also fails when I use the "private" community string
with the config described as follows:
The snmpdx.acl file is the default, with the following:
acl = {
{
communities = public, private
access = read-write
managers = *
}
}
In snmpd.conf, I have write-community set to "private" and
system-group-write-community set to private. I have
stopped and restarted snmp service to reload the configuration.
Please let me know if you see what I'm doing wrong.
Thanks,
-elizabeth
In a message dated Fri, 4 Feb 2000 7:12:26 AM Eastern Standard Time, Mark van
Kerkwyk <kerkwyk@COMTECH.COM.AU> writes:
> Hi James,
> I too could not get any information out of SUN, the support guys were
> trying to be really helpful but they just couldn't find any info on it. I
> finally worked out my problems in 5 mins of creative thinking.
>
> I may have missed part of this thread, too much mail coming in :-(
>
> Jane, send me your config (all /etc/snmp/conf to start with) and the exact
> details of your problem and I'll see if I can see anything.
>
> Mark :-)
>
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>
> James Shanks <James_Shanks@TIVOLI.COM> on 04/02/2000 23:02:43
>
> Please respond to Discussion of IBM NetView and POLYCENTER Manager on NetView
> <NV-L@UCSBVM.ucsb.edu>
>
>
>
> To: NV-L@UCSBVM.ucsb.edu
>
> cc: (bcc: Mark van Kerkwyk/Sydney/Com Tech/AU)
>
>
>
> Subject Re: snmpdx agent on Solaris
> :
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>
> Mark -
> I think the issue is that the SEA 1.03 agent appears to be broken.
> This is not my issue because I know nothing about snmpdx, but perhaps you
missed
> the two earlier postings by Jane Curry and Elizabeth Bagley who said that they
> cannot get the new SEA 1.03 agent to work properly and are getting no help at
> all from SUN's FAQs or Incident library so far. Elizabeth said she uses the
> same config as for the 1.02 agent and for that level it works fine. other
than
> to open a problem to SUN, I don't know what to tell her. Do you have some
> insight here?
>
> James Shanks
> Tivoli (NetView for UNIX) L3 Support
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