Re: [nv-l] Wrong version

[James Shanks <jshanks@us.ibm.com>]

Well, Bill, we are talking about two different things. 

When I said the value was decoded, what I meant was that the actual value of the trap variables would be given.  If they send "3" as an integer that' what we display.  If it turns out that the integer has a meaning as an enumerated value beyond that, you have to provide it,  I did not mean that trapd provided a way to translate that enumeration into text.  But you can compensate.
My advice is to code your log message so That it reads something like this:
"Value = $n, where 1=inService, 2=outofService, 3=testing, etc "
Not the best solution but a workable one, and the only one I can think of until such time as a translation function is provided in trapd.conf.

James Shanks
Level 3 Support  for Tivoli NetView for UNIX and Windows
Tivoli Software / IBM Software Group

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Thanks.

In this case, the value is a number between 0 and 8. When I browse to the
variable and hit Describe, I see a section labeled ENUMS. In it is listed
the possible values like:

inService (1)
outOfService (2)
testing (3)
etc.

When you say "The content of the variable will be decoded", do you mean I
can make the "3" in the trap variable read "testing"? How do I do that?

Regards,
Bill Kellam
Enterprise Integration and Management
404-322-4616



                                                                                                                                         
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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?

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?

Cordially,

Leslie A. Clark
IBM Global Services - Systems Mgmt & Networking
Detroit


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Hi,

When I snmpwalk a particular device, I get responses like this:

>snmpwalk 10.6.1.253 system
Wrong version: 1
Continuing anyway
system.sysDescr.0 : DISPLAY STRING- (ascii):  Cisco LocalDirector

Is this Netview telling me I'm using the wrong version or the
LocalDirector?

7.1.3/AIX5.2


Regards,
Bill Kellam
Enterprise Integration and Management