On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 08:17:49AM -0800, sujata patra wrote:
> Let's say myagent implements the oid 1.3.6.1.4.1.11456.3.3.
> 
> Host1 is running snmpd and configured to allow agentx connection.    
> 
> host2, host3, host4 is running  the myagent and wants to connect to host1 
> simultaneouly. will it be possible ?

No, only one of them will successfully connect, the other two will get an
error response stating that the variable already is registered.

> Can you please tell me what will to 3 sets of data ? How can I differentiate 
> them ?

You can either change your mib so that it includes instance information (let
yourVariable.0 become a table indexed by instance information -
yourVariable.[instance]) or you could register them in different contexts.

> I will be interested to know even proxy communication also in this . If I run 
> the myagent to run as master agent and snmp request/response is forwarded to 
> snmpd(host1), will it work out ? How the multiplexing will happen ?

I do not understand what you are asking here, could you please rephrase
the question?

/MF

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