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, Dave Shield <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 31/08/06, Nikanth K <[email protected]> wrote: > > > So can I take around 30 secs to respond? Will that be acceptable? > >> If I do that will SNMP walk work without any glitches? > > 30 seconds is a little bit long. > A typical management application would probably give up before then. > > If you can control the client side, it should be possible to increase > the timeout value > to compensate. But if other people will be querying your system, > that's not really a scalable solution. > > > > 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? > > That's how the Net-SNMP client tools work, yes. > They'll make the request, and if they don't receive an answer within a > reasonable time, they'll try again. Only when a certain number of > retries have timed out will they report failure. > Try "snmpgetnext -d ....." to see this happening. > > But a typical setup is something like 3 retries with a 5s timeout. > So a 30s processing overhead wouldn't respond in time. > > > > Q: Is this a single value that you're trying to retrieve, or a set of > related values? > (e.g. a table). If multiple, is the 30s processing a one-off > overhead, or incurred for each individual value? > > Dave > It is just a one-off overhead for the entire set of values ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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