Patch-ID# 100688-01
Keywords: agent, ping, request, kill, 1.2, snm
Synopsis: SNM 1.2: snm 1.2 generates cannot kill request messages
Date: 15/Jul/92

SunOS release: 4.1.x 

Unbundled Product: SNM

Unbundled Release: 1.2

Topic: ping, agent, kill snm

BugId's fixed with this patch: 1088848

Architectures for which this patch is available: sun4 sun4c

Patches which may conflict with this patch: 

Obsoleted by: 

Files included with this patch: snm

Problem Description: 

Using snm 1.2, quickly and repetitively quick-dump ping->reach on a
remote host with the ping agent proxy machine being the same remote host.

After a dozen or so report messages like the following appear, and the 
console hesitates :-

snm: Cannot kill request:
    manager host         [frantic]
    agent host           [frantic]
    agent                [ping]
    agent rpc #          [100115]
    agent version        [10]
    req timestamp (sec)  [702671492]
    req timestamp (usec) [178875]

The console machine is called frantic but the proxy is running on a 
machine called mustaine as a dump of the runtime shows :-


cluster(
        component.ss1 ( mustaine 129.156.136.100 "" "" "" )
        agent ( diskinfo )
        proxy ( ping mustaine )
        membership ( Home 360 190 0 )
)

These messages appear when the customer console seems to freeze for up
to a minute, though frantic only stopped for a few seconds.

Install Instructions: 

AS ROOT:

Stop any current snm processes.

1. mv /usr/snm/bin/snm /usr/snm/bin/snm.fcs
2. copy the new "snm" into /usr/snm/bin
3. use "chmod" and "chown" commands to set the file permissions of
   snm to match those below.

-rwxr-xr-x  1 root     staff      573440 Sep  3  1991 snm*