From 84adefa331c4159d432d22840663c38f155cd4c1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Erlang/OTP Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:54:40 +0000 Subject: The R13B03 release. --- lib/snmp/doc/src/notes_history.xml | 2151 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 2151 insertions(+) create mode 100644 lib/snmp/doc/src/notes_history.xml (limited to 'lib/snmp/doc/src/notes_history.xml') diff --git a/lib/snmp/doc/src/notes_history.xml b/lib/snmp/doc/src/notes_history.xml new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..8739400773 --- /dev/null +++ b/lib/snmp/doc/src/notes_history.xml @@ -0,0 +1,2151 @@ + + + + +
+ + 20042009 + Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved. + + + The contents of this file are subject to the Erlang Public License, + Version 1.1, (the "License"); you may not use this file except in + compliance with the License. You should have received a copy of the + Erlang Public License along with this software. If not, it can be + retrieved online at http://www.erlang.org/. + + Software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" + basis, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See + the License for the specific language governing rights and limitations + under the License. + + + + SNMP Release Notes history + + + + + + + + notes_history.xml +
+ +
+ SNMP Development Toolkit 4.10.3 +

Version 4.10.3 supports code replacement in runtime from/to + version 4.10.2, 4.10.1 and 4.10.

+ +
+ Improvements and new features + +

-

+
+ +
+ Reported Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions + + +

[manager] The configuration option + inform_request_behaviour + was not properly parsed, which caused the manager to revert + to the default value, auto.

+

Own Id: OTP-7219

+ + + + +
+ +
+ Incompatibilities +

-

+
+
+ + +
+ SNMP Development Toolkit 4.10.2 + +

Version 4.10.2 supports code replacement in run-time from/to + version 4.10.1 and 4.10

+ +
+ Improvements and new features + + + + +

[compiler] The MIB-compiler did not recognize well-known-names + as top parents. The names 'ccitt' (0) , 'iso' (1) and + 'joint-iso-ccitt' (2) is now also recognized by the MIB + compiler.

+

Ola Samuelsson

+

Own Id: OTP-7160

+ + + +

[compiler] The MIB-compiler did not support a name assignment + which was sequence of numbers, only a parent object + name followed by a sequence of numbers.

+

Ola Samuelsson

+

Own Id: OTP-7158

+ + + +
+ +
+ Reported Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions + + + +

[agent] Invalid variable value causes crashing agent worker + process when sending traps.

+

Own Id: OTP-7159

+ + + +

[agent] When sending a trap, the order of the variable + bindings not provided by the trap-sender, could be + mangled by the agent.

+

Ola Samuelsson

+

Own Id: OTP-7157

+ + + +

[agent] Uninstalling MEs when unloading mibs incorrect and + therefor never done.

+

Own Id: OTP-7153

+ + + +

[agent] snmp_generic:table_set_cols/3 did not handle unexpected + return values correctly when setting column values.

+

Serge Aleynikov

+

Own Id: OTP-7152

+ + + +
+ +
+ Incompatibilities +

-

+
+
+ + +
+ SNMP Development Toolkit 4.10.1 + +

Version 4.10.1 supports code replacement in run-time from/to + version 4.10

+ +
+ Improvements and new features +

-

+ +
+ +
+ Reported Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions + + + +

[manager] Fixed usage of inet:gethostname/1.

+

Dialyzer

+

Own Id: OTP-7123

+ + + +

[agent] Remeoved invalid guard. There was an invalid + guard on the start function of the top agent + supervisor.

+

Dialyzer

+

Own Id: OTP-7121

+ + + +

[compiler] Old style fun cleanup in the MIB compiler.

+

Dialyzer

+

Own Id: OTP-7119

+ + + +

Corrected usage of function file:open/2 (the Modes + argument is a list).

+

Own Id: OTP-7110

+ + + + +

The SNMP application contains some (previously undocumented) + simple utility functions for function tracing (using dbg), + see + enable_trace, + disable_trace, + set_trace/1, + reset_trace and + set_trace/2 + for more info. + These functions are intended to make it easy to enable tracing on + individual functions. + There where some minor errors, which has now been corrected.

+

Own Id: OTP-7109

+ + + + +

There is a bug in snmp_pdus:enc_oct_str_tag/1. + All the enc_* functions are supposed to return + a flat list, but the second clause of this function + does not. If it gets a binary it returns a deep list.

+

Martin Björklund

+

Own Id: OTP-7083

+ + + + +
+ +
+ Incompatibilities +

-

+
+
+ + +
+ SNMP Development Toolkit 4.10 + + +
+ Improvements and new features + + +

Added buffer sizes (both receive and send) of + the udp socket(s) info when calling the + agent info + and + manager info + function(s).

+

Own Id: OTP-6945

+ + + +

[agent] Added the ability to change the request limit + in run-time, see + set_request_limit + for more info.

+

Own Id: OTP-6898

+ + + +

Added the ability to change the audit trail log type + in run-time (both agent and manager), see function(s) + [manager] set_log_type + and + [agent] set_log_type + for more info.

+

Own Id: OTP-6841

+ + + +

[agent] Added support for message filtering in the network + interface module provided with the application. + The component that actually make the filter decisions is the + network interface filter module. This module must implement the + network interface filter behaviour. + See also the + Configuring the application + chapter of the User's Guide to see how to configure this + feature.

+

Own Id: OTP-6649

+ + + + +
+ +
+ Reported Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions +

-

+ +
+ +
+ Incompatibilities +

-

+
+
+ +
+ SNMP Development Toolkit 4.9.6 +

Version 4.9.6 supports code replacement in run-time from/to + version 4.9.5, 4.9.4, 4.9.3, 4.9.2, 4.9.1 and 4.9.

+ +
+ Improvements and new features + +

-

+
+ +
+ Reported Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions + + +

[compiler] The MIB compiler did not handle import + of the macro from the MIB RFC1155-SMI.

+

Own Id: OTP-6840

+

Aux Id: Seq 10726

+ + + +

Bad length check (i.e. none) when decoding + AuthenticationParameters.

+

Own Id: OTP-6843

+ + + + +
+ +
+ Incompatibilities +

-

+
+
+ +
+ SNMP Development Toolkit 4.9.5 +

Version 4.9.5 supports code replacement in run-time from/to + version 4.9.4, 4.9.3, 4.9.2, 4.9.1 and 4.9.

+ +
+ Improvements and new features + +

-

+
+ +
+ Reported Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions + + +

[agent] The order in which the processes in the snmp agent + where terminated was incorrect. This could, in some + case's, lead to incoming request(s) being processed + during the application termination phase. This, in + turn, could lead to various process crashes (when + expected resources where no longer available).

+

Own Id: OTP-6805

+

Aux Id: Seq 10717

+ + + +

[agent] In version 4.9.4 some requests could be + handled single threaded regardless of the value of + the multi_thread config option.

+

Own Id: OTP-6815

+

Aux Id: Seq 10724

+ + + +
+ +
+ Incompatibilities +

-

+
+
+ +
+ SNMP Development Toolkit 4.9.4 +

Version 4.9.4 supports code replacement in run-time from/to + version 4.9.3, 4.9.2, 4.9.1 and 4.9.

+ +
+ Improvements and new features + + +

The snmp documentation source has been converted + from SGML to XML.

+

Own Id: OTP-6771

+ + + +
+ +
+ Reported Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions + + +

[agent] Unexpected worker process termination. + When the agent is multi-threaded (multi_thread = true), + sending a request to the agent with an invalid context + could lead to an unexpected worker process termination. + This is a non-fatal problem since the master-agent + would simply create a new worker process.

+

Own Id: OTP-6784

+

Aux Id: Seq 10689

+ + + +
+ +
+ Incompatibilities +

-

+
+
+ +
+ SNMP Development Toolkit 4.9.3 +

Version 4.9.3 supports code replacement in run-time from/to + version 4.9.2, 4.9.1 and 4.9.

+ +
+ Improvements and new features +

-

+
+ +
+ Reported Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions + + +

[agent] Changing own [usm] pass-phrase when agent is + multi-threaded did not work.

+

Scott Lystig Fritchie

+

Martin Björklund

+

Own Id: OTP-6712

+ + +
+ +
+ Incompatibilities +

-

+
+
+ +
+ SNMP Development Toolkit 4.9.2 +

Version 4.9.2 supports code replacement in run-time from/to + version 4.9.1, 4.9 & 4.8.4.

+ +
+ Improvements and new features +

-

+
+ +
+ Reported Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions + + +

[agent] Incorrect default verbosity (trace) for target cache.

+

Own Id: OTP-6571

+

Aux Id: Seq 10437

+ + +
+ +
+ Incompatibilities +

-

+
+
+ +
+ SNMP Development Toolkit 4.9.1 +

Version 4.9.1 supports code replacement in run-time from/to + version 4.9 & 4.8.4.

+ +
+ Improvements and new features +

-

+
+ +
+ Reported Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions + + +

[agent] Used wrong DEFVAL for vacmAccessStorageType + (volatile instead of nonVolatile) in SNMP-VIEW-BASED-ACM-MIB.

+

Martin Björklund

+

Own Id: OTP-6569

+ + +
+ +
+ Incompatibilities +

-

+
+
+ +
+ SNMP Development Toolkit 4.9 +

Version 4.9 supports code replacement in run-time from/to + version 4.8.4, 4.8.3, 4.8.2, 4.8.1 and 4.8.

+ +
+ Improvements and new features + + +

Added documentation for + snmp:passwd2localized_key/3.

+

Own Id: OTP-6540

+ + +

The + snmp:config/0 + utility function assumes by default + current working dir as the directory to write config + files. This is a problem since there are two files + that share the same name, usm.conf, one for the agent + and the other for the manager. Some extra checks has + been added to be able warn the user about this possible + conflict.

+

Own Id: OTP-6532

+ + +

Minor documentation improvement for module snmp_generic.

+

Own Id: OTP-6518

+ + +

[agent] Improve error handling of missing target params + config.

+

Own Id: OTP-6487

+ + +

Minor improvement to the mnesia snmp indexing.

+

Own Id: OTP-6415

+ + +

Include the INET-ADDRESS-MIB mib in the SNMP application.

+

Own Id: OTP-6383

+ + +

Added utility modules to read, write and update the config + files of the + agent and + manager.

+

Own Id: OTP-6318

+ + +

[agent] Improve behaviour during massive trap- + sending. This is done in two way's:

+ + +

Improving performance of the target(s) cache + (which is used during trap/notification sending).

+ + +

A slightly better flow control, making it more + difficult to actually overload the agent.

+ + +

Own Id: OTP-6317

+

Aux Id: Seq 10437

+ + +
+ +
+ Reported Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions + + +

Incorrect handling of decrypt failure resulting in + incorrect error reporting. Applies to both the + agent and the manager. Detected by dialyzer.

+

Own Id: OTP-6533

+ + +

[manager] Invalid guard on function snmpm:agn/5 + made it impossible to reach this particular clause. + Detected by dialyzer.

+

Own Id: OTP-6529

+ + +

Miscellaneous minor corrections, such as + removing "dead code". Detected by dialyzer.

+

Own Id: OTP-6515

+ + +
+ +
+ Incompatibilities +

-

+
+
+ +
+ SNMP Development Toolkit 4.8.4 +

Version 4.8.4 supports code replacement in run-time from/to + version 4.8.3, 4.8.2, 4.8.1 and 4.8.

+ +
+ Improvements and new features +

-

+
+ +
+ Reported Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions + + +

[agent] An Audit Trail Log entry was sometimes done + using a list instead of the expected binary for the + snmp packet. This caused an error when converting the + log to a text-file.

+

Own Id: OTP-6408

+

Aux Id: Seq 10547

+ + +
+ +
+ Incompatibilities +

-

+
+
+ +
+ SNMP Development Toolkit 4.8.3 +

Version 4.8.3 supports code replacement in run-time from/to + version 4.8.2, 4.8.1 and 4.8.

+ +
+ Improvements and new features +

-

+
+ +
+ Reported Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions + + +

[agent] Verification of ViewTreeFamily + (SNMP-VIEW-BASED-ACM-MIB) incorrect. + No values other then null and [] where accepted.

+

Own Id: OTP-6337

+

Aux Id: Seq 10509

+ + +

[agent] Start with type takeover did not work.

+

Own Id: OTP-6340

+ + +
+ +
+ Incompatibilities +

-

+
+
+ +
+ SNMP Development Toolkit 4.8.2 +

Version 4.8.2 supports code replacement in run-time from/to + version 4.8.1 and 4.8.

+ +
+ Improvements and new features + + +

Add time-stamp to the verbosity printouts.

+

Own Id: OTP-6214

+ + +
+ +
+ Reported Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions + + +

A badly formatted debug printout caused console printouts.

+

Own Id: OTP-6247

+ + +
+ +
+ Incompatibilities +

-

+
+
+ +
+ SNMP Development Toolkit 4.8.1 +

Version 4.8.1 supports code replacement in run-time from/to + version 4.8, 4.7.4 and 4.7.3.

+ +
+ Improvements and new features +

-

+
+ +
+ Reported Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions + + +

Removed an io:format in mini mib utility (used when + converting logs).

+

Own Id: OTP-6177

+ + +
+ +
+ Incompatibilities +

-

+
+
+ +
+ SNMP Development Toolkit 4.8 +

Version 4.8 supports code replacement in run-time from/to + version 4.7.4 and 4.7.3.

+ +
+ Improvements and new features + + +

Added a config option, sndbuf, for the net_if-module(s). + See + application configuration or + running the application + for more info (look for manager_net_if_options and + agent_net_if_options).

+

Own Id: OTP-6137

+ + +

Improve error handling of the log_to_txt function(s). + [snmpm|snmpa]:log_to_txt on a non-existing log-file + causes an obscure error reason.

+

Own Id: OTP-6149

+ + +

Performance improvement when converting audit trail logs.

+

Own Id: OTP-6164

+

Aux Id: Seq 10362

+ + +
+ +
+ Reported Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions + + +

[compiler] Allow empty definitions for SMI-II mibs, + i.e. mibs are allowed to only contain the + MODULE-IDENTITY construct.

+

Own Id: OTP-6150

+

Aux Id: Seq 10333

+ + +
+ +
+ Incompatibilities +

-

+
+
+ +
+ SNMP Development Toolkit 4.7.4 +

Version 4.7.4 supports code replacement in run-time from/to + version 4.7.3, 4.7.2, 4.7.1 and 4.7.

+ +
+ Improvements and new features + + +

Add another example, + ex2. + This example is basically a simple manager module.

+

Own Id: OTP-6042

+ + +
+ +
+ Reported Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions + + +

[agent] v1 trap sending minor problems. When sending a + v1 trap, the wrong record type (#pdu{}) was used to + access the type field (which does not exist in the + #tranpdu{} record). This value is used when logging.

+

Own Id: OTP-6077

+ + +

[manager] Type guard error.

+

Kostis Sagonas.

+

Own Id: OTP-6074 (dialyzer)

+ + +

Misc Dialyzer warnings.

+

Own Id: OTP-6068

+ + +

[manager] Default value tags may conflict with actual + host name. When storing default values for agents, the + tag, default, was used for address (and port). This + could conflict with an actual host name.

+

Own Id: OTP-6062

+ + +

Misc doc corrections.

+

Own Id: OTP-6044

+ + +
+ +
+ Incompatibilities +

-

+
+
+ +
+ SNMP Development Toolkit 4.7.3 +

Version 4.7.3 supports code replacement in run-time from/to + version 4.7.2, 4.7.1 and 4.7.

+ +
+ Improvements and new features +

-

+
+ +
+ Reported Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions + + +

Misc compiler warning cleanup.

+

Own Id: OTP-6031

+ + +
+ +
+ Incompatibilities +

-

+
+
+ +
+ SNMP Development Toolkit 4.7.2 +

Version 4.7.2 supports code replacement in run-time from/to + version 4.7.1 and 4.7.

+ +
+ Improvements and new features + + +

[manager] Improve handling of empty messages. Today + when receiving an empty (size = 0) udp message, this + will result in a decode failure (a catched function + clause), which in turn will be passed on to the user, + via a call to the + handle_error + callback function, in the Reason argument. + This has now been changed so that instead, the + Reason argument will get a empty message + value.

+

See + handle_error + for more details.

+

Own Id: OTP-6024

+ + +
+ +
+ Reported Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions + + +

[manager] Some error cases are reported to the 'user' + with the ReqId and Reason swapped in the call to the + handle_error + callback function.

+

Own Id: OTP-5992

+ + +
+ +
+ Incompatibilities +

-

+
+
+ +
+ SNMP Development Toolkit 4.7.1 +

Version 4.7.1 supports code replacement in run-time from/to + version 4.7, 4.6.1 and 4.6.

+ +
+ Improvements and new features + + +

Added new version info print functions, + print_version_info.

+

Own Id: OTP-5968

+ + +

Updated the documentation for the + agent and + manager + log_to_txt functions.

+

Own Id: OTP-5969

+ + +
+ +
+ Reported Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions + + +

[manager] The supervision structure contained several + errors which unnecessarily caused a complete restart of + the manager.

+

Own Id: OTP-5963

+ + +
+ +
+ Incompatibilities +

-

+
+
+ +
+ SNMP Development Toolkit 4.7 +

Version 4.7 supports code replacement in run-time from/to + version 4.6.1 and 4.6.

+ +
+ Improvements and new features + + +

Add simple backup mechanism, + see agent backup + and manager backup.

+

Own Id: OTP-5870

+ + +

Improve handling of faulty data base files.

+

Added new agent and manager config option, + db_init_error, see + config for more + info.

+

Own Id: OTP-5934

+

Aux Id: Seq 10202

+ + +

Added possibility to configure restart type for each of + the components (default is permanent for the agent and + transient for the manager). + See config for more + info.

+

Own Id: OTP-5935

+ + +

[compiler] Improve error printouts.

+

Own Id: OTP-5937

+ + +
+ +
+ Reported Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions +

-

+
+ +
+ Incompatibilities +

-

+
+
+ +
+ SNMP Development Toolkit 4.6.1 +

Version 4.6.1 supports code replacement in run-time from/to + version 4.6.

+ +
+ Improvements and new features +

-

+
+ +
+ Reported Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions + + +

[agent] SNMP sha/aes decryption did not work.

+

Magnus Fröberg

+

Own Id: OTP-5834

+ + +

[agent] The SNMP agent internal data base (local db) + uses dets, and does not properly handle error's from + e.g. lookup.

+

Own Id: OTP-5838

+ + +
+ +
+ Incompatibilities +

-

+
+
+ +
+ SNMP Development Toolkit 4.6 +

Version 4.6 supports code replacement in run-time from/to + version 4.5.

+ +
+ Improvements and new features + + +

Improved application start flexibility. It is now + possible to start snmp application components (agent + or manager) after the application has been started. + It is even possible to start an "empty" snmp + application and start the agent and/or manager + afterwords. See + start_agent and + start_manager.

+

Own Id: OTP-5797

+

Aux Id: Seq 10128

+ + +

[agent] Adding utility function to convert old + application config to current agent config. + See the convert_config + for more info.

+

Own Id: OTP-5787

+ + +

Improved handling of audit trail logs. + See the atl_repair + config for more info.

+

Own Id: OTP-5771

+ + +

[manager] Introduced the + notify_started + function used by a client to get a notification + when the manager is started.

+

Own Id: OTP-5763

+ + +
+ +
+ Reported Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions + + +

Misc documentation corrections.

+

Own Id: OTP-5829

+

Aux Id: Seq 10152

+ + +
+ +
+ Incompatibilities +

-

+
+
+ +
+ SNMP Development Toolkit 4.5 +

Version 4.5 supports code replacement in run-time from/to + version 4.4.1 and 4.4.

+ +
+ Improvements and new features + + +

[manager] Introduced the + inform request behaviour + configuration option to allow the user to specify + how/when the manager shall acknowledge inform-request's.

+

Own Id: OTP-5733

+ + +

[manager] In order to improve application behaviour, + all callback function (see the + snmpm_user behaviour) + calls + are now done by spawned processes (and not as previously + by the SNMP manager server process).

+

Own Id: OTP-5726

+ + +

[manager] In order to present the various error + reason's returned by the manager, a + format_reason + function has been added. + The error reasons this function handles are those + returned by the (sync and async) get, get-next, + get-bulk and set-functions + (see the snmpm module) + as well as the + Reason argument of the + handle_error + function of the + user callback module.

+

Own Id: OTP-5581

+

Aux Id: Seq 9870

+ + +
+ +
+ Reported Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions + + +

[manager] The (error) report according to RFC 2572, chapter + 7.2 point 6) was never sent.

+

Own Id: OTP-5742

+ + +

[agent] Check of notification name collision + could fail due to incorrect record name (assumed to + be #trap, but could also be #notification). + This only cases a problem when the application is + compiled with the strict_record_tests option.

+

Own Id: OTP-5740

+ + +

[agent] Table get-request failure in some cases.

+

Own Id: OTP-5732

+

Aux Id: Seq 10087

+ + +

Explicitly sync all audit trail log's upon termination.

+

Own Id: OTP-5727

+ + +
+ +
+ Incompatibilities + + +

[manager] The + snmpm_network_interface + behaviour has been updated (see + inform_response and + definition of the manager net if).

+

Own Id: OTP-5733

+ + +
+
+ +
+ SNMP Development Toolkit 4.4.1 +

Version 4.4.1 supports code replacement in run-time from/to + version 4.4.

+ +
+ Improvements and new features + + +

[manager] Add monitoring of the SNMP manager. + The SNMP application consists of two different + run-time parts, the agent and the manager. They are + independent of each other. The agent is "permanent" + and the manager "transient". In order to handle + manager crashes a simple + monitor + (and demonitor) + function has been added.

+

Own Id: OTP-5720

+ + +
+ +
+ Reported Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions + + +

[manager] If sending a set-request containing an + 'OCTET STRING' with an invalid integer (valid integer + are 0-255), the encoding will fail and cause the + net_if process to crash.

+

Own Id: OTP-5719

+ + +
+ +
+ Incompatibilities +

-

+
+
+ +
+ SNMP Development Toolkit 4.4 +

Version 4.4 supports code replacement in run-time from/to + version 4.3.

+ +
+ Improvements and new features + + +

Updated and extended the + agent + info retrieval function. Also added an info retrieval + function for the + manager.

+

Own Id: OTP-5666

+ + +

[manager] Added get-bulk functionality, see (sync) get-bulk + and (async) get-bulk for more info.

+

Own Id: OTP-5669

+ + +
+ +
+ Reported Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions + + +

[manager] Mini-MIB not properly initiated which could + cause a server crash if the name_to_oid or oid_to_name + functions where called (if no mib's where loaded).

+

Own Id: OTP-5675

+ + +

[manager] The out packet counter was not incremented for + sent v1/v2 messages.

+

Own Id: OTP-5676

+ + +

[manager] The request GC process was started with the + wrong default value (idle) which could (unlikely but + still) cause problems after a code-change.

+

Own Id: OTP-5678

+ + +

Bad handling of error cases (corrupt log file) when + converting log files (i.e. when calling the function + log_to_txt).

+

Own Id: OTP-5703

+ + +
+ +
+ Incompatibilities + + +

[agent] The format of the info returned by the agent + info retrieval function has been changed. The info + can be converted to the old format by calling the + old_info_format).

+

function.

+

Own Id: OTP-5666

+ + +
+
+ +
+ SNMP Development Toolkit 4.3 +

Version 4.3 supports code replacement in run-time from/to + version 4.2.

+ +
+ Improvements and new features + + +

[manager] Improved async error reporting.

+

Own Id: OTP-5637

+

Aux Id: Seq 9970

+ + +

Added support for The Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) + Cipher Algorithm in the SNMP User-based Security Model + (RFC 3826). Both agent and manager.

+

Martin Björklund

+

Own Id: OTP-5490

+ + +
+ +
+ Reported Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions + + +

[manager] Reset of USM-cache when unregister agent.

+

Own Id: OTP-5636

+

Aux Id: Seq 9970

+ + +
+ +
+ Incompatibilities +

-

+
+
+ +
+ SNMP Development Toolkit 4.2 +

Version 4.2 supports code replacement in run-time from/to + version 4.1.5.

+ +
+ Improvements and new features + + +

[manager] Added another get, get-next and set function + with another argument, ExtraInfo (see + synchronous get (g), asynchronous get (ag), + synchronous set (s), asynchronous set (as), + synchronous get-next (gn), and asynchronous get-next (agn)). + This argument is passed on to the net-if process. The net-if + process included in this application makes no use of this + info, but other implementations might.

+

Own Id: OTP-5574

+

Aux Id: Seq 9850

+ + +

[manager] report message with incorrect security info + (e.g. securtyModel and/or securityLevel) was ignored (dropped, + except for incrementing the proper error counter) even if all + other info was correct. This has been changed so that in this + situation, the user will be informed, either via the + return value from a synchronous call (see synchronous get (g), + synchronous set (s) and synchronous get-next (gn)) + or via a call to the handle_error callback function.

+

Own Id: OTP-5578

+

Aux Id: Seq 9850

+ + +

[manager] Added a + unregister_usm_user function.

+

Own Id: OTP-5580

+

Aux Id: Seq 9850

+ + +

[agent] Added new functions to get lists of all tables, + which_tables, + and variables, + which_variables, + known to the agent.

+

Own Id: OTP-5590

+ + +
+ +
+ Reported Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions + + +

[manager] Incorrect SHA-key length check when + updating usm-user info (should have been 20 but + was 16).

+

Own Id: OTP-5579

+

Aux Id: Seq 9850

+ + +

[compiler] Incorrect error report when the name of the + field and object is the same.

+

Kostis Sagonas

+

Own Id: OTP-5591 (dialyzer)

+ + +

[manager] Arguments Port (third argument) and CtxName + (fourth argument) where swapped in snmpm:g/5 + when forwarding call.

+

Kostis Sagonas

+

Own Id: OTP-5592 (dialyzer)

+ + +
+ +
+ Incompatibilities + + +

[manager] The snmpm_network_interface behaviour has changed. + One more argument (ExtraInfo) was added to the + function send_pdu (see + send_pdu).

+

Own Id: OTP-5574

+

Aux Id: Seq 9850

+ + +
+
+ +
+ SNMP Development Toolkit 4.1.5 +

Version 4.1.5 supports code replacement in run-time from/to + version 4.1.4, 4.1.3, 4.1.2, 4.1.1 and 4.1.

+ +
+ Improvements and new features + + +

[agent] Add mapping of notification oid to alias-name.

+

Martin Björklund

+

Own Id: OTP-5562

+ + +

[manager] Late (async) reply incorrectly delivered to + user via handle_pdu instead of handle_error.

+

Own Id: OTP-5506

+

Aux Id: Seq 9804

+ + +
+ +
+ Reported Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions + + +

[manager] Security level handled incorrectly.

+

Own Id: OTP-5564

+

Aux Id: Seq 9850

+ + +

[manager] (v3) Encryption/decryption failure.

+

Own Id: OTP-5560

+

Aux Id: Seq 9850

+ + +

[manager] Cannot handle version-1 traps.

+

Own Id: OTP-5557

+

Aux Id: Seq 9850

+ + +

[manager] Set-request without specifying the variable + type failed. The type of the oid had to be found in the + loaded MIB. This look-up was erroneous.

+

Own Id: OTP-5556

+

Aux Id: Seq 9850

+ + +

[agent] Error's reported by the SecModule (v3) when + generating outgoing message was not handled correctly + in message processing dispatcher module.

+

Own Id: OTP-5550

+ + +

[manager] Error's reported by the SecModule (v3) when + generating outgoing message was not handled correctly + in message processing dispatcher module. And also when + encryption failed, the real error was masked into another + error.

+

Own Id: OTP-5548

+

Aux Id: Seq 9804

+ + +

[agent] Failure to stop the snmp application when + started with the old config type.

+

Own Id: OTP-5547

+

Aux Id: Seq 9842

+ + +

[manager] User unregistration after reboot causes process crash + (snmpm_server).

+

Own Id: OTP-5539

+ + +

[manager] Security engine id look-up errors.

+

Own Id: OTP-5508

+

Aux Id: Seq 9804

+ + +

[manager] Registering of USM users erroneous.

+

Own Id: OTP-5505

+

Aux Id: Seq 9804

+ + +
+ +
+ Incompatibilities +

-

+
+
+ +
+ SNMP Development Toolkit 4.1.4 +

Version 4.1.4 supports code replacement in run-time from/to + version 4.1.3, 4.1.2, 4.1.1 and 4.1.

+ +
+ Improvements and new features +

-

+
+ +
+ Reported Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions + + +

Fixed a perl related problem in the mibs Makefile.

+

Geoff White

+

Own Id: OTP-5491

+ + +

[manager] Failed to register usm users. Both using the + usm config file + (usm.conf) + and the API functions + register_usm_user

+

Own Id: OTP-5499

+

Aux Id: Seq 9804

+ + +
+ +
+ Incompatibilities +

-

+
+
+ +
+ SNMP Development Toolkit 4.1.3 +

Version 4.1.3 supports code replacement in run-time from/to + version 4.1.2, 4.1.1 and 4.1.

+ +
+ Improvements and new features + + +

Added utility functions to update agent and manager + config files.

+

Own Id: OTP-5468

+ + +
+ +
+ Reported Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions + + +

[agent] Error replies was composed with invalid OIDs for the + following error counters: + usmStatsWrongDigests (RFC 2574, chap 3.2, point 6), + usmStatsUnsupportedSecLevels (point 5) and + usmStatsDecryptionErrors (point 8a).

+

Own Id: OTP-5464

+

Aux Id: Seq 9791

+ + +

[agent] Malformed Oid returned from a get_next operation as + part of a get-bulk-request causes the agent to crash.

+

Own Id: OTP-5465

+

Aux Id: Seq 9783, Seq 9793

+ + +

[agent] Missing catch on decode function call.

+

Kostis Sagonas (Dialyzer)

+

Own Id: OTP-5479

+ + +

[manager] Invalid check for illegal options.

+

Kostis Sagonas (Dialyzer

+

Own Id: OTP-5480

+ + +

Faulty utility function for generation of agent + config file target_addr.conf.

+

Own Id: OTP-5482

+ + +
+ +
+ Incompatibilities +

-

+
+
+ +
+ SNMP Development Toolkit 4.1.2 +

Version 4.1.2 supports code replacement in run-time from/to + version 4.1.1 and 4.1.

+ +
+ Improvements and new features + + +

Export utility functions to create agent and manager + config files.

+

Own Id: OTP-5390

+ + +

[agent] Documented instrumentation utility functions + (e.g. current_request_id).

+

Own Id: OTP-5423

+ + +
+ +
+ Reported Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions + + +

[manager] If the client crashes after having issued + an async request, the server will crash when trying to + perform cleanup. Supervision of the calling process issuing an + async request has been removed.

+

Own Id: OTP-5370

+ + +

Failure to convert an audit-trail-log to text-file when + using the default log name. This applies to both the manager + and the agent.

+

Own Id: OTP-5394

+ + +

[manager] Corrected the discovery handling of the manager.

+

Own Id: OTP-5414

+ + +

[manager] Statistic counter creation correction.

+

Own Id: OTP-5415

+ + +

[agent] When using the old style agent configuration (pre 4.0), + it was not possible to specify a different error report + module (the agent always choose snmpa_error_logger). + A similar problem existed for the config option + force_config_load, which always reverted to false.

+

Own Id: OTP-5424

+ + +

[manager] The manager net_if process failed to properly handle + the case bind_to option value true.

+

Own Id: OTP-5431

+ + +

[agent] Various minor mnesia-related fixes.

+

Martin Björklund

+

Own Id: OTP-5433

+ + +

[manager] Missing interface functions for loading and + unloading mibs into/from the manager: + load_mib, + unload_mib, + which_mibs, + name_to_oid and + oid_to_name.

+

Own Id: OTP-5441

+ + +

Added utility functions to retrieve some system and application + info, see versions1 and + versions2.

+

Own Id: OTP-5445

+ + +
+ +
+ Incompatibilities +

-

+
+
+ +
+ SNMP Development Toolkit v4.1.1 +

Version 4.1.1 supports code replacement in run-time from/to + version 4.1.

+

When performing a downgrade, make sure the verbosity of the + manager server process is silence, or else the process will crash + (due to a bug in version 4.0.4) and be restarted by it's + supervisor.

+ +
+ Improvements and new features +

-

+
+ +
+ Reported Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions + + +

[manager] Manager synchronous get-function with timeout erroneous. + Results in a function clause.

+

Own Id: OTP-5364

+ + +

Replace in decoder fun's of the "old style" fun format, + {atom(), atom()}, with a proper fun, e.g. "fun the_function/1".

+

Own Id: OTP-5365

+ + +

[manager] Register agent using the config file + agents.conf failed due to incorrect function guard.

+

Own Id: OTP-5367

+ + +
+ +
+ Incompatibilities +

-

+
+
+ +
+ SNMP Development Toolkit v4.1.0 +

Version 4.1.0 supports code replacement in run-time from/to + version 4.0.4.

+

When performing a downgrade, make sure the verbosity of the + manager server process is silence, or else the process will crash + (due to a bug in version 4.0.4) and be restarted by it's + supervisor.

+ +
+ Improvements and new features + + +

[manager] Added possibility to monitor a registered user. + See snmpm:register_user_monitor.

+

Own Id: OTP-5286

+ + +

[agent] Improved symbolic store. Alias and Oids where stored + with similar key's (separated by types: atom() and + lists() respectively). Also added new function: + snmpa:which_aliasnames.

+

Own Id: OTP-5298

+ + +

[agent] The agent local_db volatile storage method uses + an ets-table which is private. This table has been made + protected in order to make it easier to debug and test the + snmp agent.

+

Own Id: OTP-5308

+ + +
+ +
+ Reported Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions + + +

Misspelled deprecated function. Non-existent function + snmp:is_constistent/1 was marked as deprecated. Should + have been snmp:is_consistent/1).

+

Own Id: OTP-5273

+ + +

[agent] Unclear documentation for function + snmpa:send_notification. The Recv argument + (specifically the {M,F,A} variant).

+

Own Id: OTP-5281

+ + +

[manager] It was never documented how the default + user behaviour + could be overridden (default user is the module + snmpm_user_default). + See application configuration or + configuration params.

+

Own Id: OTP-5299

+ + +

[manager] The server process contained a bug that caused it + to crash, if it received an exit message from it's gct (GC timer) + process and it's verbosity was log or higher.

+

This also effects the application downgrade.

+

Own Id: OTP-5306

+ + +

[agent] The agent config file, target_addr.conf, was + incorrectly described in the + Target Address Definitions chapter of the + User's Guide. The EngineId option was left out.

+

Own Id: OTP-5307

+

Aux Id: Seq 9689

+ + +

[manager] When a InformRequest is received, the manager sends + a response message. This did not include the varbinds + of the original message. See RFC 3416, chapter 4.2.7.

+

Own Id: OTP-5314

+ + +

[manager] Erroneous function guards made it possible to update + some agent info (that should be "static").

+

Own Id: OTP-5315

+ + +
+ +
+ Incompatibilities +

-

+
+
+ +
+ SNMP Development Toolkit v4.0.4 +

Version 4.0.4 supports code replacement in run-time from/to + version 4.0.3, 4.0.2, 4.0.1 and 4.0. +

+ +
+ Improvements and new features +

-

+
+ +
+ Reported Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions + + +

[manager] The timeout calculation for the request + gc timer incorrect.

+

Own Id: OTP-5267

+ + +
+ +
+ Incompatibilities +

-

+
+
+ +
+ SNMP Development Toolkit v4.0.3 +

Version 4.0.3 supports code replacement in run-time from/to + version 4.0.2, 4.0.1 and 4.0.

+ +
+ Improvements and new features +

-

+
+ +
+ Reported Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions + + +

[manager] Some basic SNMP types where not handled when + performing set-requests snmpm:s and snmpm:as): + 'BITS' (b), 'IpAddress' (ip), 'Opaque' (op), + 'Counter32' (c32), 'Counter64' (c64) and 'TimeTicks' (tt).

+

Own Id: OTP-5256

+ + +

[manager] Unnecessary error message when receiving trap from + unregistered agent or agent using other port then the + request port for trap-sending.

+

Own Id: OTP-5258

+ + +
+ +
+ Incompatibilities +

-

+
+
+ +
+ SNMP Development Toolkit v4.0.2 +

Version 4.0.2 supports code replacement in run-time from/to + version 4.0.1 and 4.0. +

+ +
+ Improvements and new features + + +

[manager] When the net_if process failed to send a message, for + whatever reason, this is just dropped. And the user is + "left hanging". Now, if the request is synchronous, + it will return with a proper reason (snmpm:g, snmpm:gn and + snmpm:s), and if the request + was asynchronous, the new callback function, + handle_error + (see snmpm_user) is + called.

+

Own Id: OTP-5242

+ + +
+ +
+ Reported Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions + + +

[manager] The arguments CtxName and Port was swapped in the + function snmpm:g/6.

+

Own Id: OTP-5225

+ + +

[manager] TRAP receive fails for unknown agent due to + failing message size calculation.

+

Own Id: OTP-5241

+ + +
+ +
+ Incompatibilities + + +

[manager] Introduced a new callback function in the behaviour + snmpm_user.

+

Own Id: OTP-5242

+ + +
+
+ +
+ SNMP Development Toolkit v4.0.1 +

Version 4.0.1 supports code replacement in run-time from/to version 4.0. +

+ +
+ Improvements and new features + + +

[agent] Added functions to get a list of all mibs loaded into + an agent + (see snmpa:which_mibs) + and to get the (full path) file name of a loaded mib (see + snmpa:whereis_mib).

+

Own Id: OTP-5187

+ + +
+ +
+ Reported Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions + + +

[manager] The wrong default value (1024) was used for the + net-if option recbuf. If no value is specified, then the OS + default shall be used.

+

Own Id: OTP-5196

+ + +
+ +
+ Incompatibilities +

-

+
+
+ +
+ SNMP Development Toolkit v4.0 + +
+ Improvements and new features + + +

[manager] Added a proper snmp manager.

+

Major restructure of the application in order to + incorporate the new manager.

+ + +

[agent] Add a snmpa:get/3 with an extra Context + argument. Also added similar snmpa:get_next/2,3 functions. + See snmpa:get and + snmpa:get_next.

+

Martin Björklund

+

Own Id: OTP-5054

+ + +

[agent] Add notification filters. See + snmpa_notification_filter, + register_notification_filter, + unregister_notification_filter and + which_notification_filter.

+

Own Id: OTP-5055

+ + +

[agent] Added two mib look-up functions, + me_of and + mib_of.

+

Own Id: OTP-5082

+

Aux Id: Seq 8848

+ + +

[compiler] The MIB compiler is now (source code) independent + of the rest of the application (and vice versa).

+ + +

[compiler] DISPLAY-HINT and UNITS included in the + compiled mib.

+

Own Id: OTP-5053

+ + +

[compiler] Added compiler options imports and + module_identity to include the imports list and + module identity (only SMIv2) info in the compiled mib, + see snmpc.

+ + +

[compiler] Added the MIB compiler option + +no_defs, see snmpc.

+

Martin Björklund

+ + +

[compiler] Added the MIB compiler option + +'{module, atom()}', + see snmpc.

+

Martin Björklund

+ + +
+ +
+ Reported Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions + + +

[agent] Failing MIB configure/reconfigure was difficult + to diagnose. Added better error handling and verbosity.

+ + +

[compiler] Added "default value" for INTEGER with enumeration + without a DEFVAL clause. + The lowest valid integer value is chosen for the + variable_info defval.

+

Own Id: OTP-5124

+

Aux Id: Seq 8738

+ + +

[compiler] Unnecessarily reserved words in the mib compiler + can cause some enumeration definitions to fail.

+

Martin Björklund

+

Own Id: OTP-5066

+ + +
+ +
+ Incompatibilities + + +

New sys configuration format. + Although the old configuration format still + works (if only the agent is used), it is no + longer documented and will eventually be + eliminated. + See application configuration or + configuration params for more info.

+ + +

Three new interface modules have been introduced. One + for each of the individual parts of the application:

+ + +

[agent] snmpa

+ + +

[manager] snmpm

+ + +

[compiler] snmpc

+ + +

The primary interface module, snmp, still exist. + It contains the application generic functions. The + agent specific stuff still exist (for backward + compatibility reasons), but has been deprecated and will + eventually be removed.

+

Some previously already deprecated functions has been + removed (since they in turn was dependent on deprecated + functions, see calendar).

+ + +

[agent] The agent network interface API has changed. + See snmp agent net if,

+ + +

[agent] The default agent audit trail log name has changed.

+ + +

[compiler] Mib format has changed (see OTP-5053 above).

+ + +
+
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