Right, Leslie.
A proxy is someone who stands in for someone else. But even people cannot be
proxies unless you give them power of attorney. SNMP proxies are the same.
They need to have been told they are proxies and code which knows how to
respond. A good example is the gateway to a Novell network. The Novell network
boxes don't have an SNMP agent so they cannot be queried directly, but Novell
supplies code so that their server will act as a proxy and respond for them.
James Shanks
Tivoli (NetView for UNIX and NT) L3 Support
lclark@us.ibm.com on 05/14/2000 12:09:01 PM
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It appears that I do not understand this function at all. When I name
another address as the proxy, it answers for itself. If I name a
RISC box as the proxy for a router, when I demandpoll that router,
it gets turned into a RISC box. So much for that idea! I guess a proxy
has to know that it is a proxy.....
Cordially,
Leslie A. Clark
IBM Global Services - Systems Mgmt & Networking
Detroit
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Subject: [NV-L] Using the proxy in the xnmsnmpconf
I've never had to use the proxy function before, and I want to make
sure I understand this correctly. Say all devices in the network have
the old netview machine in their access list, but not the new machine's
(temporary) address. If I name that old netview machine (still up) as
the proxy on the default entry in xnmsnmpconf, and add an explicit
entry for the new netview box itself with no proxy, should discovery
proceed more or less normally? I saw that once I did that, I was able
to snmpwalk devices that had not previously responded, but
I did not see the flood of discovery that I expected. Just wondered if
I understood this correctly. I'll be digging into it deeper today, but
I just want to make sure that this is supposed to work. Thanks...
Cordially,
Leslie A. Clark
IBM Global Services - Systems Mgmt & Networking
Detroit
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