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


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