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authorIlya Etingof <etingof@gmail.com>2017-07-13 15:10:02 +0200
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@@ -4,22 +4,22 @@ Dealing with the "OID not increasing" error
Q. I'm walking a particular Agent with the `nextCmd()` or `bulkCmd()`
functions. It works for some OIDs, but invariably fails at certain
- OID with the *OID not increasing* diagnostics. What does it mean and
+ OID with the *OID not increasing* error. What does it mean and
how do I fix that?
A. The Agent you are talking to seems to be broken. The
*OID not increasing* message means that in the course of fetching
- OIDs from Agent, Manager receives an OID that is not greater than those
- used in request.
+ OIDs from the Agent, Manager receives an OID that is not greater than those
+ passed in request.
Due to the nature of GETNEXT/GETBULK algorithm, passing the same or
lesser OID to Manager would result in fetching the same set of OIDs over
and over again effectively creating an infinite loop between Manager
- and Agent so they may never reach the end of MIB. So Manager tries
- to intervene and prevent loop from happening.
+ and Agent so they may never reach the end of MIB. To prevent this the
+ Manager tries to intervene and prevent such loop from happening.
If you have to work with a broken Agent and can terminate the
- GETNEXT/GETBULK app at some point, you can pass the
- `ignoreNonIncreasingOid` keyword parameter to the `nextCmd()` or `bulkCmd()`
+ GETNEXT/GETBULK command at some point, you can pass the
+ `ignoreNonIncreasingOid=True` keyword parameter to the `nextCmd()` or `bulkCmd()`
to disable OID verification at the Manager side.
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