Re: SnmpMgrRequest Giving Not Enough Memory (Error #8)

From: Farooque Khan (farooquek_at_NoSpamPls-concretioindia-NoSpamPls.com)
Date: 04/28/04 

Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 15:33:12 +0530

> properly. A network sniffer is a *must have*, to see what is truly
> happening on the wire.

Infact, SNMP sniffers are available there which can be of help in such
situations. 

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"Alan J. McFarlane" <alanjmcf@yahoo.com.INVALID> wrote in message
news:PAKjc.46$7S2.31@newsfe1-win...
> Muhammad Ali Shah <ali_bhai@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Just a follow-up to my email.
> >
> > I have found out that SnmpMgrRequest gives error 8 when invoked from a
> > Windows 2000 machine and a timeout occurs. The same command will give
> > error 40 when invoked from a Windows XP machine and a timeout occurs.
> >
> Well I get the same error code on Windows 2000 when a timeout occurs.
>
> > I am gradually reaching at the conclusion that MS SNMP service has
> > some problem with some agents. It sometimes requirs a machine restart
> > (or atleast a service restart) after running for a few hours.
> >
> This occurs even the first time I try this.  Note also, that there is no
> link between the SNMP service running on the local machine and using the
> MgmtAPI to query remote devices.  Stop the SNMP service and querying
remote
> devices still works; the service exists to answer *queries* to the *local*
> machine and nothing else.  So see if that works, "net stop snmp" and see
> whether your remote querying still works.
>
> So, I think that there's simply a simple fault on Windows 2000: it returns
8
> where it should return 40.
>
> And my presumption is then that your queries /are/ timing-out.  Perhaps if
> the network is not dropping them, then maybe the ATMs are not responding
> properly.  A network sniffer is a *must have*, to see what is truly
> happening on the wire.
> -- 
> Alan J. McFarlane
> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/alanjmcf/
> Please follow-up in the newsgroup for the benefit of all.
>
>

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