Re: pass-through feature seems to cache data
Roman Medina-Heigl Hernandez <[email protected]>
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Dave Shield wrote: > On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 16:49 +0200, Roman Medina-Heigl Hernandez wrote: > >> Another question, then... which is the preferred method to extend >>GET/SET functionality? > > > Writing code :-) > > Actually, that's a serious answer. > The pass mechanism is a useful "quick-n-dirty" approach for > adding a new extension - particularly for a read-only MIB. > But it relies on firing off a sub-process for every requested > varbind, so is hardly efficient! The 'pass-persist' mechanism > helps, but is still less than optimal. > > For anything non-trivial (and for reliable handling of SET requests), > you should really be looking at writing a proper C-based module. > > Or possibly perl - I'm not sure how complete/efficient the embedded > perl mechanism is. Wes knows more about that than I do. > > > >> I want SNMPD to serve via SNMP the content of a >>SQL table. > > > In which case, you *definitely* want to talk to Wes. > I'm pretty sure he's already done something similar. > > > >> Any example or idea about how to implement this interface >>sql-table/SNMP? Which related docs should I read? I'm a bit lost... > > > > Paging Mr. Hardaker..... Actually I'm going to have a look to stuff kindly posted by Turbo Frediksson: http://www.bayour.com/bacula-snmp/ Btw, it doesn't seem trivial at all. I can't believe there isn't any perl library for this. I'd also like to hear opinion from Wes. I've cc'ed him. I hope we don't disturb him... Thanks to all ppl contributing this thread. -- Saludos, -Roman PGP Fingerprint: 09BB EFCD 21ED 4E79 25FB 29E1 E47F 8A7D EAD5 6742 [Key ID: 0xEAD56742. Available at KeyServ] ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl _______________________________________________ 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