Hello, i am using snmp and alarm together to timeout a snmp query( to printer ). however, once a timeout happens with an alarm, the next snmp query with a different snmp session always inherit the previous failed snmp query result. i also use the timeout property in snmp, but it doesn't seem to do anything.
anyway here is code. { foreach $pr_section_name (values %{$config}) { my $pr_name = $pr_section_name->{pr_name}; next unless $pr_name; $pr_names{$pr_name}=""; next if $get_pr_names == 1; my $cmnt = $pr_section_name->{cmnt}; my $ip = $pr_section_name->{ip}; my $lcd_mib_1 = $pr_section_name->{lcd_mib_1}; my $lcd_mib_2 = $pr_section_name->{lcd_mib_2}; my ($session, $error) = Net::SNMP->session( -hostname => $ip, -community => chomp($cmnt), -port => 161, -timeout => 5, ); if (!defined($session)) { print STDERR $error; next; } my $pr_status = &_snmp_query($session,$status_mib) if $status_mib; my $pr_lcd_msg = &_snmp_query($session,$lcd_msg_mib) if $lcd_msg_mib; my $lcd_msg_1 = &_snmp_query($session,$lcd_mib_1) if $lcd_mib_1; my $lcd_msg_2 = &_snmp_query($session,$lcd_mib_2) if $lcd_mib_2; } } # snmp query sub _snmp_query { my ($s,$mib) = @_; my $result; # printer status eval { local $SIG{ALRM} = sub { die "alarm\n" }; alarm 2; $result = $s->get_request( -varbindlist => [$mib] ); alarm 0; }; if ($@) { return unless $@ eq "alarm\n"; } else { return lc($result->{$mib}); } } regards, Qiang __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search - Find what you’re looking for faster http://search.yahoo.com -- Report problems: http://perl.apache.org/bugs/ Mail list info: http://perl.apache.org/maillist/modperl.html List etiquette: http://perl.apache.org/maillist/email-etiquette.html