uk.co.westhawk.snmp.stack
Interface UsmAgent

All Known Implementing Classes:

DefaultUsmAgent

public interface UsmAgent

This interface provides the SNMPv3 USM (User-Based Security Model) authoritative details.

When the stack is used as authoritative SNMP engine it has to send its Engine ID and clock (i.e. Engine Boots and Engine Time) with each message. At the moment only when sending a Trap, the stack is authoritative. See RFC 2574.

Since this stack has no means in providing this information, this interface has to be implemented by the user.

Version:

$Revision: 3.3 $ $Date: 2002/10/10 15:13:57 $

Author:

Birgit Arkesteijn

See Also:

SnmpContextv3.setUsmAgent(uk.co.westhawk.snmp.stack.UsmAgent)

Field Summary

static java.lang.String

version_id

Method Summary

int	getSnmpEngineBoots() Returns the authoritative Engine Boots.
java.lang.String	getSnmpEngineId() Returns the authoritative SNMP Engine ID.
int	getSnmpEngineTime() Returns the authoritative Engine Time.
void	setSnmpContext(SnmpContextv3 context) Sets the current snmp context.

Field Detail

version_id

public static final java.lang.String version_id

Method Detail

getSnmpEngineId

public java.lang.String getSnmpEngineId()

Returns the authoritative SNMP Engine ID. It (at least within an administrative domain) uniquely and unambiguously identifies the SNMP engine.

The Engine ID is the (case insensitive) string representation of a hexadecimal number, without any prefix, for example 010000a1d41e4946.

See Also:

SnmpUtilities.toBytes(String)

getSnmpEngineBoots

public int getSnmpEngineBoots()

Returns the authoritative Engine Boots. It is a count of the number of times the SNMP engine has re-booted/re-initialized since snmpEngineID was last configured.

getSnmpEngineTime

public int getSnmpEngineTime()

Returns the authoritative Engine Time. It is the number of seconds since the snmpEngineBoots counter was last incremented.

setSnmpContext

public void setSnmpContext(SnmpContextv3 context)

Sets the current snmp context.