SNMP Manager Programmer's Guide

Constructing and Interpreting Packets
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5-3
Request and Response Packets
Table 5-2. Assigning Request and Response Packet Values
Packet
Field
Assigned
Value By Value Description
SNMP_PKT_T
Field
PDU type SNMP_Create
_Request()
Manager
Services
You use one of the following defines to
set the PDU type to the indicated integer
when you construct a request packet:
GET_REQUEST_PDU (0)
GET_NEXT_REQUEST_PDU (1)
SET_REQUEST_PDU (3)
Response PDUs contain a PDU type of
GET_RESPONSE_PDU (2).
pdu_type
request-id SNMP_Create
_Request()
You use a signed 32-bit integer to assign a
request ID.
pdu.std_pdu.
request_id
error-status Manager
Services
SNMP agent
or subagent
In request packets, the value of error-
status is 0.
Response packets contain one of the
following integers, which correspond to
the indicated defines:
0 (NO_ERROR)
1 (TOO_BIG)
2 (NO_SUCH_NAME)
3 (BAD_VALU)
4 (READ_ONLY)
5 (GEN_ERR)
6 (NO_ACCESS)
7 (WRONG_TYPE)
8 (WRONG_LENGTH)
9 (WRONG_ENCODING)
10 (WRONG_VALUE)
11 (NO_CREATION)
12 (INCONSISTENT_VALUE)
13 (RESOURCE_UNAVAILABLE)
14 (COMMIT_FAILED)
15 (UNDO_FAILED)
16 (AUTHORIZATION_ERROR)
17 (NOT_WRITABLE)
18 (INCONSISTENT_NAME)
19 (LAST_ERROR)
pdu.std_pdu.
error_status
error-index Manager
Services
SNMP agent
or subagent
In request packets, the value of error-
index is 0.
When the error-status is not NO_ERROR,
this signed integer indicates which
variable in a list of variable bindings
caused the exception.
pdu.std_pdu.
error_index