Re: subagent - how long can it take to respond to a get request?
"Nikanth K" <[email protected]>
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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! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ 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