2009/6/16 Robert Story <[email protected]>:
> DS> No - it means that MIB object names in the config file would be converted
> DS> to numeric OIDs, presumably by the config parsing routine.
> DS>
> DS> Internally the comparisons would be of numeric OIDs, yes.
> DS> But the user visible config could use names or numbers.
>
> True.. I was just think that we always tell people you don't need to load the
> mibs to run the agent...
True - You don't.
And you still wouldn't.
Of course, if you don't load the MIBs, then you need to specify numeric
OIDs in the config file - and that would apply to the new cache timeout
directive, just as it does currently with the access control stuff.
That's the tradeoff that the administrator needs to make.
> The only wrinkle I can think of might be some mib table doing it's own
> caching, not using the helper, that also wants to take advantage of the new
> configurable values.. Should they be left with hard-coded values, updated to
> use cache handlers, or just use the same new selist/netsnmp_container api for
> puling the value out directly?
Such modules should be updated to use the cache handler.
That would then give them both config-file control over the cache,
*and* run-time SET configuration, with no further changes needed.
(Well, strictly speaking it would actually be one *or* the other,
but the functionality for both would be there).
If you think you can get this mechanism in place before rc1, then fine.
I'm still inclined to regard this as a new feature, rather than a bug fix.
But if the others are happy with this, I'm not going to object.
Dave
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