On 20/02/2008, Nirav Shah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>                                              I also would like
> to know if creating an MIB for this specific agent

For the Net-SNMP agent, or the MS agent?

> would go beyond a week or so.

How experienced are you at developing MIBs?

>    I have limited an negligible knowledge of snmp.

Ah!
Then yes, I can confidently say this will probably take
longer than a week.

The first task would be to port the Net-SNMP agent onto
Windows CE.   I don't recall any mention on the lists of
anyone trying this before (and I'm a Unix man, so don't
have a feel for how different Windows CE is from other
versions of Windows).
   That makes it difficult to comment as to how straightforward
this would be, or how long it would take.


  Then you'd need to work out how to retrieve/update the
wireless information from the underlying O/S.   That's
often the hardest aspect of implementing a new MIB.

  Then it's just a matter of generating suitable MIB template
code (which can be done automatically using 'mib2c') and
inserting the appropriate API calls to retrieve/update the
necessary information.

If you want to implement the standard IEEE802dot11-MIB,
then you'll also need to link this in with the IF-MIB code
(since the dot11StationConfigTable is indexed by ifIndex,
so effectively augments the main ifTables).


I have to say that this probably isn't the easiest starting
point for getting into SNMP development!


>                                      Is there a way i can get
> an Net-snmp system to work on this without creating an agent or MIB.

You will definitely need an agent, since this is the program that
you would query to get information out, or update the settings.
If you don't have an agent, then you can't talk to the box.
(At least not using SNMP).

If you have a script or command that would display the information that
you're interested in, then you could perhaps use the "extend" mechanism
to return this data in a fairly generic format.   That might be slightly easier.
But you'd still need to port the basic agent to Windows CE.


> If anyone has an idea about it please do reply.
>  I know MS provides a SNMP agent but i could not find
> the related MIB supporting 802.11 for it.

Have you tried asking Microsoft whether this is already supported?
A quick search for 802.11 MIB information seems to indicate that
they might have something suitable already
  (e.g. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms796356.aspx)

But you'd need to talk to Microsoft to find out for definite.

Dave

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