Please keep answers on the list!

On tor, 2006-12-07 at 06:59 +0100, Olivier Beytrison wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> That's what i meant. The "agent" reffer to the net-snmp daemon. So Yes, 
> the data are going to be held in the sub-agent.

In this context "the agent" is the program that contains the code that
mib2c creates. That this happens to be a subagent in this case doesn't
matter.

/MF

> 
> Magnus Fromreide a écrit :
> > On ons, 2006-12-06 at 18:41 +0100, Olivier Beytrison wrote:
> > 
> >>Hello all,
> >>
> >>I'm currently running a project in my school, which need to provide
> >>datas over SNMP.
> >>
> >>Here is a small overview of the context :
> >>
> >>We have small temperature sensors (embedded devices) that will
> >>periodically send information through the network to a central server.
> >>(those devices can't run their own snmp agent). The application on the
> >>server will store the data in a linked list.
> >>
> >>The same program is a subagent aswell, and will feed the data into the
> >>snmp agent of the server. Those datas may change quite fast (every 15s
> >>for example).
> >>
> >>So, here are some questions i'm asking myself :
> >>
> >>1. I've choosed the Iterator solution, as explained when running mib2c
> >>(the data are held outside from the agent itself). Is that the right
> >>choice ?
> > 
> > 
> > I'd say no. When you are writing a subagent then the subagent acts as
> > agent, so you are holding all data inside the (sub)agent (in that linked
> > list)
> > 
> > /MF
> > 


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