Sorry for budding in... Actually, according to the link that Mike posted, you should altogether uninstall Net::SNMP, as it will clash with the snmp/net-snmp perl module. Please read on the link on how to get the right perl module...
BR, Nikos ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Daum" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 10:04 AM Subject: Re: Retrieving Bit-Field/Hex-String with Perl > Hi, > > Mike Ayers wrote: >>> From: Peter Daum [mailto:[email protected]] >>> Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2009 3:22 AM >> >>> I am trying to retrieve a bit field containing the error >>> status of a printer. >>> >>> With the command line snmpget program, this works: >>> >>> # snmpget -v1 -cpublic printer .1.3.6.1.2.1.25.3.5.1.2.1 >>> HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrPrinterDetectedErrorState.1 = Hex-STRING: 00 >>> >>> With the Net::SNMP module, I can also retrieve the value; >>> >>> When I do the same with Net-SNMP, I always get an empty string, >>> regardless of the actual value: >>> >>> my $session = new SNMP::Session( >>> DestHost => $host, Version => 1, Community => 'public'); >>> my $result = $session->get($oid)); >>> >>> Other attributes with "normal" string values are no problem. >>> Is there anything special I have to do to retrieve binary values? >> >> You could try using the net-snmp perl module... >> >> http://www.net-snmp.org/wiki/index.php/Which_Perl_module_should_I_use > > Did you mean "Net::SNMP"? > > I did (see above). I have the impression, that Net-SNMP could have > some advantages (if it worked ;) but since I can't solve this issue > (and it seems like nobody else knows what's going on and is willing to > share the knowledge), at the momement that's just what I do ... > > Regards, > Peter > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ 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
