Re: [nv-l] SNMP v2c - SNMP v2u

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

I didn't think there was a formatting difference, so perhaps you should ask for further clarification or a sample to test with.  
Offhand, I would say SNMP V2c, though I am unsure of just what v2u is.  I thought the difference here was whether you support community name based security,  and trapd does not.  

And I don't understand what the baroc defs have to do with that at all.    When NetView gets your V2 trap, he will treat it just like a V1 trap, in fact he will internally map it to a V1 trap, just as a bilingual receiver is supposed to do per RFC 2089.  That's what he does now.  And then he reads trapd.conf and pulls the baroc class name and slots you have defined there and sends an event to TEC.  So what goes to TEC will not be trap but a TEC event, just like the ones you see now.   So what you give to TEC and what you put in trapd.conf for those entries will be blind to whether the trap is V1 or V2.

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

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Netview 7.1.3 and AIX 4.3.3
 
A vendor is developing an application for us that will send out SNMP traps to Netview when certain error conditions are detected. They have asked us if they should use SNMP v2c or v2u for their formatting. They are also providing us with TEC Class definitions (BAROC files) to load on our TEC servers as these SNMP traps will be forwarded to the TEC server.
 
Does Netview handle both types (v2c and v2u) just as well? Any feedback or heads-up will be appreciated. 
 
Cheers 
 
Fawad Qureshi
Division of Network Engineering - SSA / RSIS
410-965-4413