On Wed, 2010-09-08 at 12:13 +0530, Ravi Kumar wrote: > Hi All, > > Could any one plz give me an example in which we need a separate snmp > sub-agent. > I have an snmp agent "snmpd" why do i need to write and extra sub-agent > module. > We can write plug-ins for agent itself to add more mib functionalies in it.
The typical reason is that you are delivering som feature that is to be used in a bigger system and then it is evil of you to assume that you are so important that you can let your extended agent hog the SNMP port, it is a lot nicer to let the system owner set up the master agent and then you can communicate with it. Another reason is that you can isolate the permissions the various processes are given so that a bug in one doesn't necessarily mean that you have granted root access to the cracker. /MF ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net Dev2Dev email is sponsored by: Show off your parallel programming skills. Enter the Intel(R) Threading Challenge 2010. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-thread-sfd _______________________________________________ Net-snmp-coders mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/net-snmp-coders
