Is the snmpEngineID discovered by the 'Discovery Diagnostic' tool meant to be the same as the snmpEngineID in the SNMP-FRAMEWORK-MIB::snmpEngineID ?  I've found they differ for the devices I examined.

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We do not pull the SNMP Engine ID from the device MIB, we have found over the years that this variable is often not uniqe accross devices. We use this a unique identifier for devices, so Engine ID you see on the device viewer is a unique ID generated by the NetMRI software which is why you cannot find it in the device MIB.

I've found a couple of devices which apparently have the same snmpEngineID.

When I do a Discovery Diagnostic on them I get the message

***** IP ADDRESS 143.x.y.z FOUND ON DIFFERENT DEVICE WITH SAME snmpEngineID *****

How can I get round this?

Thanks.

You can complain to the vendor who made the devices and failed to make those unique.

- Marty

I should have clarified - it is the NetMRI 'snmpEngineID' that is identical. The 'real' SNMP Engine IDs of the devices are different.