Mark --
Thank you so much for taking the time to draft this detailed
and *very* helpful response! I can close out the trouble ticket
with Sun -- and move ahead with the training materials!
Thanks again,
Elizabeth
Tivoli Education
In a message dated 2/4/00 7:51:04 PM Central Standard Time,
kerkwyk@COMTECH.COM.AU writes:
> Subj: Re: snmpdx agent on Solaris 7 - SOLUTION
> Date: 2/4/00 7:51:04 PM Central Standard Time
> From: kerkwyk@COMTECH.COM.AU (Mark van Kerkwyk)
> Sender: NV-L@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU (Discussion of IBM NetView and POLYCENTER
> Manager on NetView)
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POLYCENTER
> Manager on NetView)
> To: NV-L@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU
>
> 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 :-)
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > 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
> > :
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > 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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