Re: [dhcwg] Re: DHCP Option for SNMP Notifications

[Mark Bakke <mbakke@cisco.com>]

On second thought, we would probably also want to configure whether
each host was to be sent a V1 or V2 trap.

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Mark

Mark Bakke wrote:
> 
> Hi David-
> 
> My assumption was that in this case, we could get away with using
> "public" for the community string, and that any defined traps would
> be enabled (we would only send these when something failed, so
> we shouldn't have to allow the user to configure which ones to
> send).  That would take care of early boot, unless configuring the
> community string was important.  Perhaps this would be enough.
> 
> Are there other things that might be important to set for an initial
> boot implementation that only sends traps?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Mark
> 
> "David T. Perkins" wrote:
> >
> > HI,
> >
> > Mark,
> >
> > Having only an IP address of a management target is insufficient for
> > achieving your objective. What you need to add depends on how many
> > "stages" that you have for your boot operation, and what you assume
> > can be configured in persistent storage for the device.
> >
> > At 11:22 AM 9/11/2002 -0500, Mark Bakke wrote:
> > >Hi-
> > >
> > >I needed a method to configure a list of SNMP notification (AKA trap)
> > >hosts for use by diskless workstations booting from a network device.
> > >Since none of the usual SNMP configuration information is available
> > >at this time, I would like to use a DHCP option to provide a list of
> > >IP addresses to which to send notifications when, for instance, booting
> > >from a network device fails for some reason.  This could also be used
> > >to centrally configure the list of SNMP notification hosts, rather than
> > >setting them individually on each machine.
> > >
> > >Anyway, I've submitted a short draft describing the proposed option
> > >as draft-bakke-dhc-snmp-trap-00.txt.  I'll forward the message to
> > >these two groups when the draft is published.  In the mean time, it
> > >is available at:
> > >
> > >ftp://ftpeng.cisco.com/mbakke/ips/dhcp/draft-bakke-dhc-snmp-trap-00.txt
> > >
> > >I'm guessing that these two mailing lists (dhcwg and mibs) are the
> > >correct places to discuss this (please let me know if there's a more
> > >appropriate list).
> > >
> > >Regards,
> > >
> > >Mark A. Bakke
> > >Cisco Systems
> > >mbakke@cisco.com
> > >763.398.1054
> > Regards,
> > /david t. perkins
> 
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