Errata

Essential SNMP

Errata for Essential SNMP

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The errata list is a list of errors and their corrections that were found after the product was released. If the error was corrected in a later version or reprint the date of the correction will be displayed in the column titled "Date Corrected".

The following errata were submitted by our customers and approved as valid errors by the author or editor.

Color key: Serious technical mistake Minor technical mistake Language or formatting error Typo Question Note Update

Version Location Description Submitted By Date submitted Date corrected
2
Naming OID section

The URI listed in the second chapter of this book as a link to the OID registration for has gone 404, instead, I think the correct link is
pen.iana.org/pen/PenApplication.page

 Cameron Bunce  Dec 19, 2017 
Printed
Page 27
near bottom

Missing hyphen following "OBJECT-TYPE":
FROM RFC 1212;
should be
FROM RFC-1212;

 Anonymous    Jun 01, 2007
Printed
Page 35
next-to-last sentence

In the sentence starting with, "From here," there is a missing dot: "mib-2 1" should
be "mib-2.1"

 Anonymous    Jun 01, 2007
Printed
Page 38
Middle of page

snmpget cisco.ora.com public .1.3.6.1.2.1.1.6.0
should read:
snmpget -v1 -c public cisco.ora.com .1.3.6.1.2.1.1.6.0

 Anonymous    Jun 01, 2007
Printed
Page 44
Near top

snmpwalk cisco.ora.com public system
should read:
snmpwalk -v 1 -c public cisco.ora.com system

 Anonymous    Jun 01, 2007
Printed
Page 54
Near bottom

./snmpbulkget -v2c -Cn1 -Cr2 127.0.0.1 -c public sysDescr sysContact
should be
snmpbulkget -v2c -Cn1 -Cr2 127.0.0.1 -c public sysDescr sysContact

 Anonymous    Jun 01, 2007
Printed
Page 57
1st paragraph, 2nd sentence

The section talks about the SNMP set operation.

The sentence currently states:
Objects that are defined in the MIB as read-write or read-only can be altered or
created using this command.

In my opinion the new sentence should be:
Objects that are defined in the MIB as read-write or write-only can be altered or
created using this command.

(write-only instead of read-only)

 Anonymous   
Printed
Page 57
Near top

$ snmpget cisco.ora.com public system.sysLocation.0
system.sysLocation.0 = ""
$ snmpset
cisco.ora.com private system.sysLocation.0 s "Atlanta, GA"
system.sysLocation.0 = "Atlanta, GA"
$ snmpget cisco.ora.com public system.sysLocation.0
system.sysLocation.0 = "Atlanta, GA"

Should read

$ snmpget -v 1 -c public cisco.ora.com system.sysLocation.0
system.sysLocation.0 = ""
$ snmpset -v 1 -c private cisco.ora.com system.sysLocation.0 s "Atlanta, GA"
system.sysLocation.0 = "Atlanta, GA"
$ snmpget -v 1 -c public cisco.ora.com system.sysLocation.0
system.sysLocation.0 = "Atlanta, GA"

 Anonymous    Jun 01, 2007
Printed
Page 58
2nd paragraph

First sentencce states, "It's time for more tethereal output." The word tethereal should be ethereal.

Anonymous  Jan 26, 2012 
Printed
Page 58
Starting at 2nd paragraph.

snmpset -v 1 -c private 127.0.0.1 sysContact.0s snmp@vagrant.org

should be:

snmpset -v 1 -c private 127.0.0.1 sysName.0 s box


Anonymous    Jun 01, 2007
Printed
Page 78
Footnote at the bottom of the page

The footnote -
[*] This image is reprinted from the paper "SNMPv3: A Security Enhancement for SNMP" by William Stallings,
which can be found online at http://www.comsoc.org/livepubs/surveys/public/4q98issue/stallings.html

should be removed. The author drew Figure 3-2.

 Anonymous    Jun 01, 2007
Printed
Page 83
Footnote at the bottom of the page

The footnote -
[*] This image is reprinted from the paper "SNMPv3: A Security Enhancement for SNMP" by William Stallings,
which can be found online at http://www.comsoc.org/livepubs/surveys/public/4q98issue/stallings.html

should be removed. The author drew Figure 3-3.

 Anonymous    Jun 01, 2007
Printed
Page 115
4th paragraph, frist sentence

The beginning of the paragraph states "sysNames hould". This should be "sysName should"

Note from the Author or Editor:
Agreed. This should be "sysName should"

 Anonymous  Mar 23, 2018 
Printed
Page 144
first paragraph, last sentence

Currently:
running Version 11.0(16)
Should be:
running Version 12.3(8)T3

 Anonymous    Jun 01, 2007
Mobi
Page 641
Place 9801 (ebook reflow)

1. This forces the module to use Net-SNMP's snprint_value library function,
SHOULD BE
sprint_value as is referenced in the code snipet above the explanation

 Greg EVA  Sep 09, 2014 
Mobi
Page 694
Place 10608 (reflowed ebook)

$ jwhois yahoo.com
SHOULD READ
$ whois yahoo.com

 Greg EVA  Sep 09, 2014