Network Working Group B. Wijnen
Request for Comments: 2089 IBM
Category: Informational D. Levi
SNMP Research, Inc
January 1997
V2ToV1
Mapping SNMPv2 onto SNMPv1
within a bi-lingual SNMP agent
Status of this Memo
This memo provides information for the Internet community. This memo
does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of
this memo is unlimited.
Abstract
The goal of this memo is to document a common way of mapping an
SNMPv2 response into an SNMPv1 response within a bi-lingual SNMP
agent (one that supports both SNMPv1 and SNMPv2).
Table of Contents
1.0 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
2.0 Mapping SNMPv2 into SNMPv1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
2.1 Mapping SNMPv2 error-status into SNMPv1 error-status . . . 3
2.2 Mapping SNMPv2 exceptions into SNMPv1 . . . . . . . . . . 3
2.3 Mapping noSuchObject and noSuchInstance . . . . . . . . . 4
2.4 Mapping endOfMibView . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2.5 Mapping SNMPv2 SMI into SNMPv1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3.0 Processing SNMPv1 requests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
3.1 Processing an SNMPv1 GET request . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
3.2 Processing an SNMPv1 GETNEXT request . . . . . . . . . . . 7
3.3 Processing an outgoing SNMPv2 trap . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
4.0 Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
5.0 References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
6.0 Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
7.0 Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Appendix A. Background Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
A.1 Mapping of error-status Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
A.2 SNMPv1 traps without Counter64 varBinds. . . . . . . . . 12
Wijnen & Levi Informational