When is the errindex supposed to be set to the appropriate value in the response PDU for an SNMP SET request that fails?
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When is the errindex supposed to be set to the appropriate value in the response PDU for an SNMP SET request that fails?
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You actually don’t set the error-index using the Net-SNMP API. The problem is that your loop over the requests should actually always return SNMPERR_SUCCESS to indicate the handler succeeded even if some of the SNMP request components didn’t.
To indicate a particular request failed with an error message, you would use the following API:
netsnmp_set_request_error(reqinfo, request, SNMP_NOSUCHOBJECT);for example. For picking the correct error to return, please see section 4.2.5 in RFC3416 which has a nice step-by-step procedure for returning the right error code for a given situation.