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snmp agent doc tweaks


Index: ChangeLog
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RCS file: /cvs/ecos/ecos-opt/snmp/agent/current/ChangeLog,v
retrieving revision 1.21
diff -u -5 -p -r1.21 ChangeLog
--- ChangeLog	3 Feb 2003 16:34:44 -0000	1.21
+++ ChangeLog	5 Feb 2003 13:55:53 -0000
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
+2003-02-05  Jonathan Larmour  <jifl@eCosCentric.com>
+
+	* doc/snmp.sgml: Fix a doc build failure, and tweak some duff links and
+	a few typos.
+
 2003-02-03  Andrew Lunn <andrew.lunn@ascom.ch>
 
         * doc/prepare-manpages.sh: New file. Convert from man to sgml.
         * doc/manpages/snmpd.conf.5: New file: Manual page for snmpd.conf.
         * doc/snmp-manpages.sgml: New file. The converted man page
Index: doc/snmp.sgml
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RCS file: /cvs/ecos/ecos-opt/snmp/agent/current/doc/snmp.sgml,v
retrieving revision 1.3
diff -u -5 -p -r1.3 snmp.sgml
--- doc/snmp.sgml	3 Feb 2003 16:34:45 -0000	1.3
+++ doc/snmp.sgml	5 Feb 2003 13:55:53 -0000
@@ -244,11 +244,13 @@ again.
 <SECT1 id="net-snmp-configuring-ecos">
 <TITLE>Configuring eCos</TITLE>
 <PARA>
 Apart from adding the networking, common ethernet device drivers,
 snmp library and snmp agent packages, there is no configuration
-required.
+required. However there are a number of configuration options
+that can be set such as some details for the System MIB, and
+disabling SNMPv3 support (see below).
 </PARA>
 <PARA>
 Starting the SNMP agent is not integrated into network
 tests other than <FILENAME>snmpping</FILENAME> below, nor is it
 started automatically in normal eCos startup -
@@ -264,25 +266,26 @@ following implications :
 </PARA>
 <PARA> 1. There is no community authentication for v1 and v2c.</PARA>
 <PARA>2. Security provided by v3 can be bypassed by using v1/v2c protocol.</PARA>
 <PARA>
 To provide the dispatcher with rfc 2571 type functionality, it is required to
-setup security models and access profiles. This can be provided in the normal
+set up security models and access profiles. This can be provided in the normal
 Unix style by writing the required configurations in <LITERAL>snmpd.conf</LITERAL> 
 file. Application code may setup profiles in <LITERAL>snmpd.conf</LITERAL> and 
 optionally set the environment variable <LITERAL>SNMPCONFPATH</LITERAL> to 
 point to the file if it is not in the usual location. The whole concept works
 in the usual way as with the standard UCD-SNMP distribution.
 </PARA>
+</SECT2>
 <SECT2 id="Traps">
 <TITLE>Traps</TITLE>
 <PARA>
-The support of <LITERAL>trapsink</LITERAL> command in  
-<ulink url="net-snmp-snmpd.conf.html"> snmpd.conf</ulink> file is not tested 
-and may have problems in working as expected. Moreover, in systems that do not 
-filesystem support, there is no way to configure a trap-session in conventional
-way.
+The support of the <LITERAL>trapsink</LITERAL> command in the
+<link linkend="SNMPD.CONF">snmpd.conf</link> file is not tested 
+and there may be problems for it working as expected. Moreover, in systems that do not 
+have filesystem support, there is no way to configure a trap-session in the
+conventional way.
 </PARA>
 <PARA>
 For reasons mentioned above, applications need to initialize their own trap
 sessions and pass it the details of trap-sink. The following is a small sample
 for initializing a v1 trap session :
@@ -319,21 +322,21 @@ if (trapsink.ip != 0) {
 Using snmpd.conf requires the inclusion of one of the file-system packages
 (eg. CYGPKG_RAMFS) and CYGPKG_FILEIO. With these two packages included, the
 SNMP sub-system will read the snmpd.conf file from the location specified in
 <LITERAL>SNMPCONFPATH</LITERAL>, or the standard builtin locations, and use
 these profiles. Only the profiles specified in the <LITERAL>ACCESS-CONTROL</LITERAL>
-section of <ulink url="net-snmp-snmpd.conf.html">snmpd.conf</ulink> file have 
+section of <link linkend="SNMPD.CONF">snmpd.conf</link> file have 
 been tested and shown to work. Other profiles which have been implemented in 
 <LITERAL>UCD-SNMP-4.1.2</LITERAL>'s <LITERAL>snmpd.conf</LITERAL> may not work
 because the sole purpose of adding support for the snmpd.conf file has been to
-setup <LITERAL>ACCESS-CONTROL</LITERAL> models.
+set up <LITERAL>ACCESS-CONTROL</LITERAL> models.
 </PARA>
 <PARA>
 At startup, the SNMP module tries to look for file <FILENAME>snmp.conf</FILENAME>. 
 If this file is not available, the module successively looks for files
 <FILENAME>snmpd.conf</FILENAME>, <FILENAME>snmp.local.conf</FILENAME> and 
-<FILENAME>snmpd.local.conf</FILENAME> at location pointed to by <LITERAL>
+<FILENAME>snmpd.local.conf</FILENAME> at the locations pointed to by <LITERAL>
 SNMPCONFPATH</LITERAL> environment variable. In case <LITERAL>SNMPCONFPATH
 </LITERAL> is not defined, the search sequence is carried out in default directories.
 The default directories are :<FILENAME>/usr/share/snmp</filename>, <filename>
 /usr/local/share/snmp</filename> and <filename>$(HOME)/.snmp</filename>.
 The configurations read from these files are used to control both, SNMP 
@@ -469,12 +472,12 @@ an empty list.
 <PARA>
 <filename>PACKAGES/net/snmp/lib/VERSION/src/read_config.c</filename>
 contains two systems:
 </PARA>
 <PARA>
-The first tries to read the configuration file as described in
-<ulink url="net-snmp-configuring-ecos.html">snmpd.conf file</ulink> section and 
+The first tries to read the configuration file as described in the
+<link linkend="net-snmp-configuring-ecos">snmpd.conf file</link> section and 
 the second system contains code to record persistent data as files in a
 directory (typically <filename>/var/ucd-snmp</filename>) thus preserving the 
 state permanently.
 </PARA>
 <PARA>


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