HI, All good questions and advice, except for encouragement in the use of agentX. With agentX, "only" an SNMP master agent and retrieve the info. With other approaches, "any" client can interact with the managed sub-system.
On Fri, 18 Aug 2006, Dave Shield wrote: > On 18/08/06, Jenny Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I need to embed net-snmp agent within my application. I have > > generated the code for my MIB using mib2c. The problem is that, all the > > values for the SNMP parameters is provided by my application. > > Does your application include some form of API to supply this > information to external applications. (e.g. a status file, or a > /proc-style interface, or a socket that can be read to retrieve this > information). If so, then you could write a standalone MIB module > that used this API, and link this in with the net-snmp agent. > > If there isn't such an API, and the necessary information is purely > internal to your application, then you're really looking at AgentX. > You can embed an agentX subagent within your application, and have > this register with the Net-SNMP (or any other) master agent. > > The MIB module code is much the same in either case, but in the latter > scenario, you'd be able to use internal APIs to retrieve the necessary > information. > > The on-line tutorial (http://www.net-snmp.org/tutorial/tutorial-5) > includes the basic framework for a subagent - you should be able to > use this as a model for the code that would need to be added to your > application. > > Dave > Regards, /david t. perkins ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Net-snmp-coders mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/net-snmp-coders
