What the heck is all this about? Anybody can run the hook. You don't have to
do all the backflips you describe below.
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 11:27:47AM -0700, Ian Holsman wrote:
>...
> > If these 2 questions are answered YES. It will create a problem
> > for management applications which are not HTTP-request based
> > and this solution will not work with SNMP.
> >
> what about this scenario..
>
> I am running a SNMP agent on the machine
> it has a 'GET' request for a OID.
> IF it is part of the server it would run the hook, otherwise it could grab the data
>via HTTP
> and convert it to SNMP (ugly, but doable)
>
> doing it via shared-mem outside of the server is a PITA,
> as 1. the SNMP has to know the structure
> 2. i would need to modify the SNMP agent if I want to monitor
> something non-standard, or if I have a custom module
>
> holding a global structure is also a pain
> 1. pointers in shared mem don't work, so I couldn't store pointers
> to functions to execute to get the info
> 2. storing this is process-memory would be too much of a resource drain
> as the structure would consume a bit of memory for each process
> 3. summary data couldn't be held, and would have to be generated by the
> SNMP agent itself
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Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
