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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
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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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          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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          Neue"">-- Susan Jasinski</p>
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    <p>Regards</p>
    <p>Ratan<br>
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