On tis, 2007-03-13 at 12:36 +0000, Joao Miguel Ferreira wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I've posted this question on the users list, but did not find the most
> correct approach to do this. My problem is simple: my application needs
> to request snmpd to send a trap.
> 
> Is there an API to ask the agent to send a trap (I do not mean an API to
> send the trap... I mean an API to ask the agent to send it.... or to ask
> the agent to execute some C code in which I would program my trap
> sending...)

You could use AgentX (RFC 2741) for this - if you only wish to send
traps you should get away with a rudimentary implementation supporting
only Open, Close, Notify, Ping and Response.

> I guess asking the agent to send the trap would avoid me having to go
> through all the trapsinks/informsynks in snmpd.conf myself... much more
> eficient.

Possibly. You'd have to implement some other API somehow.

> On the users list someone said I could alter the agent's code to open a
> socket and add it to the select() call, and so on. It will work, but
> isn't there be a better approach for this ?

As I said above AgentX sounds like the thing for you.

/MF


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