Mars Issue – SNMP
September 13th, 2007 Posted in Cisco, Mars, NetworkingThis is from a co-worker
My first MARS configuration using SNMP for administrative access (vs Telnet/SSH) has revealed some issues.
Turns out that when you are adding a device and want to administer it via SNMP, when the documentation asks you to configure read-write access, there is no place to add a RW string. You enter the RW string in the field labeled RO. Nice.
Further, if you want to administer a device using SNMP you STILL need to enter the login and enable passwd info as SNMP doesn’t return everything the MARS needs, even though it will accept a managed device configuration without this info.
I also don’t think it will successfully discover the device for management using SNMP without the device login info, it just goes on ‘Discovering the device, please wait…’ forever.
Interestingly, when configuring a device as a generic router instead of a Cisco router, you only get SNMP string fields, no login or enable passwd fields, which, is something that finally makes a little sense.
