snmpwalk command results "snmpwalk: Unknown engine ID"

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Unknown engine ID reported as result from snmpwalk command.
# snmpwalk -v3 -u root -l authPriv -a SHA -A <password> -x AES -X <password> localhost sysDescr
snmpwalk: Unknown engine ID (Sub-id not found: (top) -> sysDescr)

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) 3.6.8
  • Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor (RHEV-H) release 7.2 (20160711.0.el7ev)
  • vdsm-4.17.33-1.el7ev.noarch
  • net-snmp-5.7.2-24.el7_2.1.x86_64

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