Symptoms

The initial engineIDType on an unconfigured system is NETSNMP_RND. If the snmpd configuration file is read and there is no stored engine ID then one is generated based on current system time (and some other bits) to produce a random engineID. When randomly generated engineID changed length in release 14.0.0 of the BIG-IP to include some trailing zeros.

Impact

This can be confusing because the alert daemon and the snmp agent both issue traps and the alert daemon traps did not include the trailing zeros.

Conditions

Use of unconfigured engineID on a clean install with version 14.0.0 or later. Note the engineIDType of NETSNMP_RND cannot be user configured.

Workaround

There is no workaround.

Fix Information

The bug has been fixed and the trailing zeros are no longer included in the randomly generated engine ID.

Behavior Change