Re: [nv-l] Wrong version

[Jane Curry <jane.curry@skills-1st.co.uk>]

Hi James,
Mebbe I've missed it, but the only thing I can see mentioned as 
deprecaated in the 7.1.4 Release Notes is Submap Explorer.  I still have 
an xnmloadmib2 in ?usr/OV/bin........
Cheers,
Jane

James Shanks wrote:

> The content of the variable will be decoded.  But the MIB OID itself 
> will not be unless you load an SNMP  V1 version of the MIB with 
> xnmloadmib.  The xnmloadmib2 database is not used by trapd at this 
> time.  That might change in the future but not now.  And the entire 
> issue may be moot as xnmloadmib2 has been deprecated.  That's 
> mentioned in the Release Notes.
> James Shanks
> Level 3 Support  for Tivoli NetView for UNIX and Windows
> Tivoli Software / IBM Software Group
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> That's disappointing. In the meantime, I've worked on the traps that I'm
> receiving from this device. I ran mib2trap, on 
> CISCO-LOCAL-DIRECTOR-MIB.my,
> and got a set of addtraps. I executed the script to load the definitions.
> The mib itself is SNMPv2, so I use xnmload2. I've successfully 
> modified the
> trap definition with some English verbiage, but the variable that is sent
> with the trap isn't decoded. I can use xnmbrowser2 to find and browse to
> it, but it is still in dotted-decimal form in the log file. Is that 
> normal?
> Am I seeing a v2 variable in a v1 trap?
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> Regards,
> Bill Kellam
> Enterprise Integration and Management
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> The cisco Local Director device has a very badly behaved SNMP agent, 
> if you
> ask me. Notice the oid they claim to be using. They answer to very little.
> I generally treat them as non-snmp and figure it is sort of like firewalls
> - they don't want us to know too much about them. Has anyone else had
> better experience with them?
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> IBM Global Services - Systems Mgmt & Networking
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> Hi,
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> When I snmpwalk a particular device, I get responses like this:
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> >snmpwalk 10.6.1.253 system
> Wrong version: 1
> Continuing anyway
> system.sysDescr.0 : DISPLAY STRING- (ascii):  Cisco LocalDirector
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> Is this Netview telling me I'm using the wrong version or the
> LocalDirector?
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> 7.1.3/AIX5.2
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> Regards,
> Bill Kellam
> Enterprise Integration and Management
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