Re: Is there an SNMP MIB object which provides system's fully-qualified domain name (besides sysName)

[Kristine Adamson <adamson@us.ibm.com>]

Jergen,
   Thanks for the response.
 We are concerned about using sysName because of it's read-write access.
 If we initially provide the fully-qualified domain name as the value
of sysName, and we receive an snmp _set_ request to change the value, is
the implication that the requestor is actually changing the fully-qualified
domain name of the system?  Or is the implication that the requestor
is just changing the fully-qualified domain name in SNMP?  Thanks,

Kristine Adamson
IBM z/OS Communications Server: TCP/IP Development
Phone: (919) 254-7911   T/L 444-7911
Internet e-mail:adamson@us.ibm.com


Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@iu-bremen.de>
wrote on 02/25/2005 03:25:52 PM:

> On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 10:00:08AM -0700, Kristine Adamson wrote:

> >    Thanks for the info.  We
have been asked to provide the fully-qualified
> > domain name of a host from SNMP on our platform.  That's
why I raised the
> > question.

> Here is what RFC 3418 actually says:

> sysName OBJECT-TYPE
> SYNTAX      DisplayString (SIZE (0..255))
> MAX-ACCESS  read-write
> STATUS      current
> DESCRIPTION
> "An administratively-assigned name for this
managed
> node.  By convention, this is the node's fully-qualified
> domain name.  If the name is unknown, the value is
> the zero-length string."
> ::= { system 5 }

> /js

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