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<p><tt>Hi Susan,</tt></p>
On 29/01/19 11:01 PM, susan jasinski wrote:<br>
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Neue"">On the GUI SNMP panel, all customers that we
tested told us that they want the ability to test the manager
host name or IP address that they provide to be sure that it
is accurate. Right now, the BMC does not have this ability.<br>
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<tt>I wanted to get more info on this, Currently SNMP D-Bus service
on the BMC does the validation for whether the IP is reachable or
not as part of configuration.</tt>
<p><tt>Suppose if admin configures the hostname/ip which is valid
end point(pingable hostname/ip) but not the SNMP trapdaemon, In
this scenario what is customer expectation?</tt></p>
<p><tt>SNMP trapdaemon works on UDP, and the trapdaemon(162) listens
only the trap messages not the SNMP agent messages.</tt></p>
<p><tt><b><tt>BMC uses the SNMP for sending the trap messages to the
SNMP trapdaemon.</tt></b><tt><br>
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<p><tt>Below link seems useful if BMC would have been SNMP
client(sending messages to port 161) and SNMP agent is sitting
outside the BMC and on BMC I run the command SNMPwalk to find
that the configured IP address is SNMP agent or not which is not
the case here.</tt></p>
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My team did some digging around on the internet and found this
SNMP query suggestion. <a
href="https://support.panorama9.com/hc/en-us/articles/203568188-Test-if-SNMP-devices-are-responding-correctly-to-SNMP-queries"
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style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica
Neue"">I am looking for feedback on whether we <u>should</u>
implement something similar?<br>
- If we get a response from an SNMP enabled device in the
backend, then we would provide a validation message like
"Device responded to the SNMP query"<br>
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style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica
Neue"">- If we do not get a response, then we would
provide a validation message like "Invalid host name or IP
address, or the device did not respond to the SNMP query"<br>
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I am open to suggestions for the messages.</p>
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<p>Regards</p>
<p>Ratan<br>
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