Carlos: >Let's try a slightly more confusing analogy: > Bill has cable, Dave has satellite, and Bob has an antenna. > >Each tunes-in to Are You Being Served? But: > Bill's on channel 4, Dave's on 57, and Bob's on 17. > >All get the same data regardless of channel. You're instru- >mentation knows that the OIDs 4, 57, and 17 point to the data >Are You Being Served? You can then change OID 57 to point to >data American Idol.
No, at least, not without modifying the Agent, or not without modifying the proxy service. In any case, for each OID you get data in the form of a television signal feed. The exact content of that data is arbitrary. You can change the data associated with an OID. What you cannot do is to use an OID for two different sets of data. For instance, one OID cannot be used to both refer to a signed integer and for an ASCII string. >At which point Dave will be enraged, but >the Agent is none the wiser. The agent is the wiser, for it knows when it gets a varbind for OID 17, and it knows when it gets a varbind for OID 57, and it knows the difference between these OID's. What it could care less about is the data provided by those OID's, save for the type of that data. It is the content of data associated with an OID which is unimportant. What is important is the name of the data (OID) and type of data. >The Agent still gives you the >notification that OID 57 needs to be serviced. You are implying that a trap or notification is sent, but you haven't said why this is so. >Note: You might find the trend that OID 57 will receive fewer >and fewer requests once users realize the data to be American >Idol though. > >Carlos William R. Buckley ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Oracle 10g Get certified on the hottest thing ever to hit the market... Oracle 10g. Take an Oracle 10g class now, and we'll give you the exam FREE. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=3149&alloc_id=8166&op=click _______________________________________________ Net-snmp-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please see the following page to unsubscribe or change other options: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/net-snmp-users
