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Re: snmp setup (traps, mib files, snmpv1/v2, mib2trap)

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Subject: Re: snmp setup (traps, mib files, snmpv1/v2, mib2trap)
From: netview@toddh.net (Todd H.)
Date: 07 Oct 2001 04:38:26 -0500
netview@toddh.net (Todd H.) writes:
> "James Shanks" <SHANKS@us.tivoli.com> writes:
> 
> > Todd -
> > I am sorry Todd but you are just wrong about this.  I work on mib2trap so I
> > know, and I have fixed several bugs in it between 6.0 and 6.0.2.  I suspect
> > your comments are driven by the fact that you may not have been working
> > with a current version.
> > 
> > First, mib2trap is not a script but a program, which has to parse the MIB
> > in order to construct all those elements, like the enterprise id, which are
> > needed to define a trap to trapd.conf.  It uses the same library are
> > xnmloadmib2 (UNIX) or loadmibv2 (NT) so it DOES understand the same SNMPV2
> > MIB constructs as the SNMPV2 loader, including NOTIFICATION-TYPE, which it
> > can use to generate an addtrap statement.  It is NOT necessary to use only
> > SNMPV1 MIBs with mib2trap.  This is true no matter whether you use the NT
> > version or the UNIX version.
> 
> 
> Well color me duly misinformed on the product by my peers!  
> 
> 
> Excellent...good to know. 


BTW...does anyone know where my coworkers would've gotten this notion
of snmpv1 compatibility only with mib2trap?


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