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authorMicael Karlberg <[email protected]>2012-01-25 17:56:15 +0100
committerMicael Karlberg <[email protected]>2012-01-25 17:56:15 +0100
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[snmp/agent] Simultaneous snmpa:backup/1,2 calls interfere
Simultaneous snmpa#backup">snmpa:backup/1,2 calls interfere. The master agent did not check if a backup was already in progress when a backup request was accepted OTP-9884
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-rw-r--r--lib/snmp/doc/src/notes.xml58
-rw-r--r--lib/snmp/doc/src/snmpa.xml24
2 files changed, 73 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/lib/snmp/doc/src/notes.xml b/lib/snmp/doc/src/notes.xml
index 9082868e39..2b0feb6682 100644
--- a/lib/snmp/doc/src/notes.xml
+++ b/lib/snmp/doc/src/notes.xml
@@ -33,6 +33,64 @@
</header>
<section>
+ <title>SNMP Development Toolkit 4.17.4</title>
+
+ <p>Version 4.17.4 supports code replacement in runtime from/to
+ version 4.17.3, 4.17.2, 4.17.1, 4.17, 4.16.2, 4.16.1 and 4.16.</p>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>Improvements and new features</title>
+ <p>-</p>
+
+ <!--
+ <list type="bulleted">
+ <item>
+ <p>[agent] DoS attack using GET-BULK with large value of
+ MaxRepetitions.
+ A preventive method has been implementing by simply
+ limit the number of varbinds that can be included in
+ a Get-BULK response message. This is specified by the
+ new config option,
+ <seealso marker="snmp_app#agent_gb_max_vbs">gb_max_vbs</seealso>.
+ </p>
+ <p>Own Id: OTP-9700</p>
+ </item>
+
+ </list>
+ -->
+
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>Reported Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
+ <!--
+ <p>-</p>
+ -->
+
+ <list type="bulleted">
+ <item>
+ <p>[agent] Simultaneous
+ <seealso marker="snmpa#backup">snmpa:backup/1,2</seealso>
+ calls can interfere.
+ The master agent did not check if a backup was already in
+ progress when a backup request was accepted. </p>
+ <p>Own Id: OTP-9884</p>
+ <p>Aux Id: Seq 11995</p>
+ </item>
+
+ </list>
+
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>Incompatibilities</title>
+ <p>-</p>
+ </section>
+
+ </section> <!-- 4.17.4 -->
+
+
+ <section>
<title>SNMP Development Toolkit 4.17.3</title>
<p>Version 4.17.3 supports code replacement in runtime from/to
diff --git a/lib/snmp/doc/src/snmpa.xml b/lib/snmp/doc/src/snmpa.xml
index 1be6abe6dd..3bc2063f4e 100644
--- a/lib/snmp/doc/src/snmpa.xml
+++ b/lib/snmp/doc/src/snmpa.xml
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="latin1" ?>
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?>
<!DOCTYPE erlref SYSTEM "erlref.dtd">
<erlref>
<header>
<copyright>
- <year>2004</year><year>2010</year>
+ <year>2004</year><year>2012</year>
<holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice>
@@ -198,12 +198,18 @@ notification_delivery_info() = #snmpa_notification_delivery_info{}
<type>
<v>BackupDir = string()</v>
<v>Agent = pid() | atom()</v>
+ <v>Reason = backup_in_progress | term()</v>
</type>
<desc>
<p>Backup persistent/permanent data handled by the agent
(such as local-db, mib-data and vacm). </p>
<p>Data stored by mnesia is not handled. </p>
<p>BackupDir cannot be identical to DbDir. </p>
+ <p>Simultaneous backup calls are <em>not</em> allowed.
+ That is, two different processes cannot simultaneously
+ successfully call this function. One of them will be first,
+ and succeed. The second will fail with the error reason
+ <c>backup_in_progress</c>. </p>
<marker id="info"></marker>
</desc>
@@ -217,13 +223,13 @@ notification_delivery_info() = #snmpa_notification_delivery_info{}
</type>
<desc>
<p>Returns a list (a dictionary) containing information about
- the agent. Information includes loaded MIBs, registered
- sub-agents, some information about the memory allocation. </p>
- <p>As of version 4.4 the format of the info has been changed.
- To convert the info to the old format, call the
- <seealso marker="#old_info_format">old_info_format</seealso>
- function. </p>
-
+ the agent. Information includes loaded MIBs, registered
+ sub-agents, some information about the memory allocation. </p>
+ <p>As of version 4.4 the format of the info has been changed.
+ To convert the info to the old format, call the
+ <seealso marker="#old_info_format">old_info_format</seealso>
+ function. </p>
+
<marker id="old_info_format"></marker>
</desc>
</func>