On mån, 2007-12-10 at 09:49 +0000, Dave Shield wrote: > On 08/12/2007, Giuseppe Modugno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks Dave, your explanation is very clear, but I can't find a real > > situation > > where a "watcher" helper could help. > > > It's difficult to have a situation where the OID variable is really the > > variable > > of the agent process... isn't it? > > Not really. > > For example, the agent (or rather the library) keeps internal statistics for > the > number of particular type of request received or sent. Similarly for certain > error conditions (unknown community, etc). These are intended to implement > the SNMP group of statistics objects, and could easily be passed to the > watcher for implementing in this way. > (In fact, they are implemented using the older v4 API, and we > haven't bothered re-writing the code to use the newer style).
Actually I have done it, I just haven't gotten around to committing it yet... /MF ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ Net-snmp-coders mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/net-snmp-coders
