Re: subagent - how long can it take to respond to a get request?

"Nikanth K" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.net-snmp.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 8/31/06, Nikanth K <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
> On 8/31/06, Dave Shield <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > On 31/08/06, Jayaprakasha Guddenahalli Naganna <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> > > >>I know that SNMP works over UDP.
> > >  >>I am developing a subagent over agentx
> >
> > >             Agentx will be over TCP.
> >
> > Yes - but that's the communication between the master agent and the
> > subagent.
> > The communication between the initial client and the master agent will
> > typically be SNMP-over-UDP.
> >
> > But it doesn't actually matter whether the traffic is over TCP, UDP,
> > or carrier pigeon.
> > What's important is whether the time taken to calculate the values is
> > longer than a typical client retry timeout.
> >
> >
> > > Temporary solution:
> > >
> > > If get on some OID's is going to take more than default timeout you
> > can try
> > > by increasing the time out period while issuing snmpget.
> >
> > An alternative approach is to some (or all) of the calculations in the
> > background on a regular basis (perhaps in a separate process), so that
> > the necessary information is immediately available for processing a
> > request.
> >
> > Dave
> >
>
> The problem is that I cannot periodically do that as, for retrieving those
> values - adds significant overload on some other critical process(the one
> which I want to monitor through SNMP). If I do with sufficient interval of
> time, the values will be inaccurate.
>
> So can I take around 30 secs to respond? Will that be acceptable? If I do
> that will SNMP walk work without any glitches?
>

If that is a get next request, can I make them come back again with the same
OID so that I will move on once the data is ready?
so that snmpwalk might work smoothly!

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