Re: Exception when calling setName on SystemGroup

["Phil Wang" <pywang@nortelnetworks.com>]

For the time being, we can the two default communities for different
SNMP operations, the "public" community is for read-only (i.e., SNMPGET)
and the "private" one for write (i.e., SNMPSET). They share the same mib
view (with read or write permissions).

I've made the above two communities working on Linux. However,
"snmpd.conf" is a bit tricky at the beginning. -:)

Phil

Rob Duncan wrote:
> 
> "Wang, Phil " <pywang@americasm01.nt.com> writes:
> 
> > > 2. As I read from the SNMP spec, SNMP requests should indicate the
> > > community name it is using, how is that achieved in the API ? Where
> > > should I set the community name to be for authentication purpose ?
> 
> > Two communities are used internally by "jmibmap_loopback", they are
> > "public" and "private". If you want to use your own communities, you'd
> > re-write the a new JMIB mapper.
> >
> > On the other hand, these Java mibs (e.g., jmib_mib2 for MIB II) are
> > automatically generated from their mib texts which do not contain a
> > community name. So, the JMIB APIs do not support setting a community
> > name. Rob, it that right?
> 
> Yes.  This is a bug in our APIs.  Right now the community strings are
> hardwired into the Loopback service implementation.  I'll fix this for
> the next release by adding an API for this into the Loopback service,
> and probably also by setting some configuration variables somewhere.
> 
> R.