Hi Dave
Thanks so much for the clarification
Cheers
Ulises
On Nov 8, 2007 2:49 PM, Dave Shield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 08/11/2007, somebody nodoby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I would like to know if it is possible to create a perl script for GET
> > requests without the restriction of using 1.3.6.1.4.1.2021
>
> Yes.
> There is nothing technically significant about this OID.
> It's simply the enterprise number that was officially assigned
> to UCDavis, and so was available for use with this project.
>
> You can register MIB objects under any OID that you choose
> (bearing in mind that different OID subtrees will be managed
> by different organisations). But the agent doesn't care.
>
>
> > or being forced to return the return the results
> > using the table format described in the EXTENSIBLE-MIB section
> > of the snmpd.conf man page
>
> The structure described in this section is aimed at reporting
> information from arbitrary command (perl scripts, shell scripts,
> binary commands, etc) - which have no knowledge of SNMP.
>
> If you invoke the script via "exec", "sh" or "extend" directives,
> then the output will always be structured in this manner.
>
>
> However, a script that *does* know about SNMP has more
> flexibillity, and can be used to model an arbitrary MIB structure.
> See the section "MIB-Specific Extension Commands" in the
> snmpd.conf man page for a description of the "pass" command.
>
> Dave
>
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