Re: agent X's role
Dave Shield <[email protected]>
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On Mon, 2005-11-14 at 16:06 +0000, Guillaume Desticourt wrote: > AgentX supports dynamic registration - the subagent could > connect to the master agent, and offer to support a new > area of the OID tree. > > > I don't see the point, the subagent should have to be manually > configured to connect to the midlevel manager, we have moved the conf > file that's all... But think about scalability. I can set up a single subagent config (referring to the one MLM system), and distribute this to 100 different subagents. They will then all know to connect to the MLM. If driven from the centre, I'd need 100 different config fragments. And with the subagent-driven registration, I (as the Head Network Management Honcho) don't need to worry about these outlying systems at all - I can leave that to my minions (who I would not trust fiddling with my Shiny New MidLevel Manager system). So the administration can be distributed as well. Another advantage of driving things from the subagent side, is that registrations can be added and removed as the subagent systems are booted and shut down. The central system doesn't need to keep track of which subagents are active - the subagents can update this for themselves. These latter two become more important if you think in terms of embedded subagents - perhaps on blade servers or hot-swappable network cards. The central system doesn't necessarily know what cards will be inserted or removed - but the cards ought to know their current status, so are in a better position to register or unregister as appropriate. Dave ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _______________________________________________ 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