I'm having bother with the get_request method.
I'm writing a script that will query a device via SNMP to check the
system time (it's a nagios check to make sure that devices are polling
NTP properly and not falling out of sync).
Unfortunately, the get request is returning in format I don't
The actual value is a binary string - 8 (or 11) characters long.
Which is exactly what you're receiving.
The snmpwalk command then uses the Display-Hint to
print this binary string in a more meaningful manner.
But it's up to the client side to interpret this - the agent just sends
the raw
