The windows snmpv3 agent
This is the most downloaded piece of software out of the various softwares at this site. It is also the only software for which a potential costumer had run a test suite against, and the only problem he had found were related to some edge case in error reporting inherited from the underlying net-snmp stack.
The errors which were found were insignificant for any real world usage (I assume that taking into account the popularity of the net-snmp stack, if they were significant they would have been fixed long ago), but the breaking of the deal which forced me to return to a normal day job have depressed me and I have not bothered to analyze and report them to the net-snmp project.
In the year which had passed since then, there some shift in the server market and there are now more servers running windows 2003 64 bit version. Since the agent in its current state is a 32-bit application, it can not access the SNMP DLL’s which are supplied by microsoft which are 64 bit. I havn’t tried it, but I assume that you can’t run the agent on a 64 bit OS.
For now the software is in maintenance mode. If you find bugs, or has a suggestions for minor improvements, I will try to make the necessary code changes.
Assuming someone will be willing to sponser the work, or I will come up with a working buisness plan, this is the current list of features I would like to add in future:
- 64 bit OS support
- MSI installer
- GUI candy for defining snmpv3 views by browsing the agent mibs and data
- upgrade to the latest net-snmp stack
March 8th, 2007 at 12:43 am
Hello,
does your agent provide the way to define manager IPs separately for read and write communities?
E.g. I would like to allow read access from some distant hosts, and write access from localhost only.
Is it possible? If no, then let it be suggestion for improvement.
March 8th, 2007 at 7:57 am
Hi Alex,
It is supposed to be possible for the community based security. When you define a community in the communities tab you can also specify the IP address and mask for the managers which are allowed to access the agent with this specific community string.
The SNMPv3 security module lacks this filtering ability mainly because it was not implemented in the net-snmp stack, and I assumed that it means that there is no actual need for it. If someone who uses the agent will actually ask for this kind of feature for SNMPv3, I will gladly implement it.
If you have any more suggestion, please feel free to let me know about them.
April 23rd, 2007 at 7:52 am
When I tried to set sysDescr, I was unable to set. It says operation cannot be performed. Can someone tell me how to set the value? If that MIB is not included then I would like to add RFC1213 mib in this Agent. Can someone help me how to included the MIB that I want? I couldnt find any help page to include RFC1213.
April 24th, 2007 at 12:14 am
Hi Anusha,
Have you installed the windows SNMP pack (don’t remember its exact name). This pack includes all the modules which actually implement the various mibs.