Net-SNMP agent 5.5 always misreports sysObjectID as ".1.3" or ".0.1"
Description
Version 5.5 of the Net-SNMP agent suffers from a bug that causes the value of sysObjectID always to be truncated to ".1.3" on i386 or ".0.1" on x86_64. The result is that SNMP management applications (e.g. OpenNMS) are unable to determine from the sysObjectID that they're in fact talking to a Net-SNMP agent.
To work around this agent bug, we should add two identical auxiliary systemDefs with exact <sysoid> child elements of ".1.3" and ".0.1". These systemDefs should include all the collection groups from the "Enterprise" systemDef and the "Net-SNMP" systemDef.
Environment
Operating System: All
Platform: PC
Acceptance / Success Criteria
None
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Activity
Jeff Gehlbach October 13, 2010 at 1:19 PM
Workaround pushed to 1.8 (single-file style) in commit 36076d82357c397bac96b46e8abf993fe47b8c38 and cherry-picked (in split-file style) to master in commit 1336efac2ab1e3dc16aa0a7036b6e41af9358737.
Version 5.5 of the Net-SNMP agent suffers from a bug that causes the value of sysObjectID always to be truncated to ".1.3" on i386 or ".0.1" on x86_64. The result is that SNMP management applications (e.g. OpenNMS) are unable to
determine from the sysObjectID that they're in fact talking to a Net-SNMP agent.
To work around this agent bug, we should add two identical auxiliary systemDefs with exact <sysoid> child elements of ".1.3" and ".0.1". These systemDefs should include all the collection groups from the "Enterprise" systemDef and the "Net-SNMP" systemDef.