Re: mib2c configs for embedded perl

Thomas

> Peter Martin wrote:

> We've discussed this recently and don't think anyone has done it yet. But 
> we'd highly appreciate any work in this regard! Please go ahead and submit 
> your config when you're done, so that it can be considered for inclusion 
> in the distribution.

Ok, thanks for the info, I will go ahead and do that. Obviously I have my 
own set of goals and requirements which will guide the design of tools and 
the outputs it generates (see below for the rationale). If anyone has any 
specific requirements here then let me know and I'll consider adding them if 
they don't detract from the essence of what I need.

At the moment I am thinking along these lines:

Create the boilerplate for initialisation with the agent.
Create a hash that associates the OIDs with a handler based on the object 
name. This allows the agent creator to supply subs to return or set the 
values.
A general scalar handler that uses the hash and calls the handlers. The code 
gen will create skeletons of the handlers which can then be filled in as 
required.
A general table handler that performs the getnext logic and calls a handler 
for the leaf objects. Uses user-written table specific functions for index 
handling. Again skeletons will be created.


BTW, my rationale for using perl is that most of our mibs are concerned with 
remote monitoring and on the whole query data held in plain text or xml 
files, so perl is a natural choice for this. Monitoring is only performed at 
a fairly low rate, so performance is not top of our list.

> BTW, what net-snmp version(s) and platform(s) are your working with?
I am using mainly a Fedora 3 OS on HP servers and with net-snmp-5.2.2-pre2 
(today) with Perl 5.8.5. The products are IPTV and VOD servers. 



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