Re: Textual name of Object in SNMP Packet
Robert Story <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.network.net-snmp.devel |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Mon, 14 May 2018 15:28:31 +0530 Anandaprabu wrote: AV> As per my project requirement I was requested by the NMS to AV> send Textual Object name in a column of a Table. AV> AV> Like after adding the Managed device to NMS, the device should AV> make a queue of updated objects in a table (let's say AV> configUpdateTable) which will be queried by the NMS if the AV> device sends a trap to notify there are some updates from AV> device. AV> AV> My worry is Can we send Object name in SNMP packet or we should AV> send only OIDs? Is there any standard that says like the Packet AV> should not contain Textual Object name? Values in a SNMP packet are a tuple of OID, type and value. The only way to send a textual name is as a value. So if you have a table of updated objects, you could have a column that contains the textual name. Robert ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot