Hi Monks

I am a newbie to SNMP and learning to program SNMP in Perl i have a problem in setting the value of the OID. I have tried to run even in the command line gives me the same error

ERROR: Set -> Received notWritable(17) error-status at error-index 0.

I can smell that there is some problem with the permission for which i am not able to set the value i am able to get the requested information using the Get command perfectly but when i am using set i get the error. By default, the agent responds to the "public" community for read only access, so how can i make it possible to make the set to work.

My Code is

  #!/usr/bin/perl

   use strict;

   use Net::SNMP;

   my ($session, $error) = Net::SNMP->session(
      -hostname     => shift || 'localhost',
      -community    => shift || 'public',
      -port         => '161',
      -version      => 'snmpv2' );
    #  -username     => 'root'
    #  -authkey      => '0x05c7fbde31916f64da4d5b77156bdfa7',
    #  -authprotocol => 'md5',
    #  -privkey      => '0x93725fd3a02a48ce02df4e065a1c1746'
    #  );
    #print "=======$session";

   if (!defined($session)) {
      printf("ERROR: %s.\n", $error);
      exit 1;
   }

   my $sysName = '1.3.6.1.2.1.1.5.0';

   my $result = $session->set_request(
      -varbindlist => [$sysName, OCTET_STRING, "Help Desk x911"]
   );

   if (!defined($result)) {
      printf("ERROR: Set -> %s.\n", $session->error);
      $session->close;
      exit 1;
   }
  printf("sysContact for host '%s' set to '%s'\n",
   $session->hostname, $result->{$sysName}
   );

   $session->close;
   exit 0;
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