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E/OS SNMP Support Manual
SNMP Framework MIB
Description
The SNMP Management Architecture MIB.
Sequence
::= { snmpModules 10 }
Textual Conventions
SnmpEngineID
Status
current
Description
An SNMP engine's administratively-unique identifier.
The value for this object may not be all zeros or all 'ff'H or the empty
(zero length) string. The initial value for this object may be
configured via an operator console entry or via an algorithmic
function. In the latter case, the following example algorithm is
recommended.
In cases where there are multiple engines on the same system, the use
of this algorithm is NOT appropriate, as it would result in all of those
engines ending up with the same ID value.
1. The very first bit is used to indicate how the rest of the data is
composed.
2. The snmpEngineID has a length of 12 octets.
The first four octets are set to the binary equivalent of the agent's
SNMP management private enterprise number as assigned by the
Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). For example, if
Acme Networks has been assigned { enterprises 696 }, the first
four octets would be assigned '000002b8'H.
The remaining eight octets are determined via one or more
enterprise-specific methods. Such methods must be designed so
as to maximize the possibility that the value of this object will be
unique in the agent's administrative domain. For example, it may
be the IP address of the SNMP entity, or the MAC address of one
of the interfaces, with each address suitably padded with random
0 as defined by enterprise using former methods that existed
before SNMPv3. See item 2 below.
1 as defined by this architecture, see item 3 below. Note that this
allows existing uses of the engineID (also known as AgentID
[RFC1910]) to co-exist with any new uses.