Re: add a forever process in agent

On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 16:56 +0800, Jim Su wrote:

>    I need to add a forever process in my agent. This process periodically
> reads one particular directory and generates a list of data. That list is
> to be used by a var_ABCTable() function in my agent when a snmpwalk or
> snmpget request to this table is received. 

Will the agent make any other use of this list?
In particular, if the agent doesn't receive any requests for this
table for a day or two, is it necessary to keep regenerating the
list all the time?


If not, then I suggest you look at using the cache helper to
generate this list "on demand".

If this is not possible (either because generating the list takes
too long, or because the data *is* needed for other purposes in
the meantime), then you can use 'snmp_alarm_register'
to specify a routine to run - either as a one-off, or regularly
(until it's explicitly cancelled).


Dave


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