Hi Tim

That's a restriction of your own making

Your application can certainly read a three-line text file for its parameters, 
and that need not be the same file as snmpd.conf at all

feasghar math

Tim




Am 17.02.2015 um 15:24 schrieb Tim Culhane:

> Hi Tim,
> 
> It is compiled as a shared object which is  dynamically loaded in to the
> snmpd agent using the dlmod snmpd conf directive.
> 
> So, it can't read in arguments of its own.
> 
> Tim
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Cox [mailto:timmiles...@gmx.ch] 
> Sent: 17 February 2015 14:04
> To: Tim Culhane
> Cc: net-snmp-coders@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: getting shared objects to read configuration in snmpd.conf
> 
> 
> Tim
> 
> Why can't your application read a config file of its own?
> 
> Or look at its command line arguments?
> 
> Best Regards
> 
> Tim
> 
> 
> Am 17.02.2015 um 13:20 schrieb Tim Culhane:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Apologies for cross posting:
>> 
>> I'm writing a c shared object which will connect to a proprietary 
>> server via telnet and read back performance and status counters.
>> 
>> I don't want to hardcode the connection details such as IP address, 
>> port number and password for the proprietary server into my shared object.
>> 
>> What I would like to do is have the shared object read the information 
>> from the snmpd.conf file or similar location.
>> 
>> Is it possible to add custom settings to the snmpd.conf file which can 
>> then be read by a shared object?
>> 
>> Are there help functions in the snmpd library for doing this in an 
>> efficient way?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Tim
>> 
>> 
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