Re: Agent confusion.

I am just a "little" ahead of you... Go to:

http://www.net-snmp.org/tutorial/tutorial-5/toolkit/index.html

I am finishing up the tutorial now and it is very helpful.


John Anderson wrote:
>
> Greetings,
>
> I’m writing an SNMP agent for some MySQL statistics. After reading the 
> tutorials and looking at the list archives, I’m still a little 
> confused on a couple of points. I’m hoping some of you can help clear 
> this up for me.
>
> I figured out how to write the MIB file and I’m able to run mib2c 
> against it and get frame code. Once I complete the code, how do I make 
> snmpd aware of the agent? Does net-snmp need to be recompiled on Linux 
> to include the new SNMP agent? Is there any way to dynamically load 
> new agents in net-snmp?
>
> My second point of confusion comes the actual implementation of the 
> code generated by mib2c. So far, I have only two objects defined in my 
> MIB starting at .1.3.6.1.2.1.720 :
>
> [root@ccbux2-dev mysqlstat]# snmptranslate -m +MYSQL-DB-MIB -On -IR 
> mysqlKeyReadRequests
>
> .1.3.6.1.2.1.720.1
>
> [root@ccbux2-dev mysqlstat]# snmptranslate -m +MYSQL-DB-MIB -On -IR mysql
>
> .1.3.6.1.2.1.720
>
> (Yes, I’m using OIDs generated ‘at random’, that will be changed when 
> I get a better picture of what I need to accomplish.)
>
> In the c source file generated by mib2c there is one function 
> init_mysql(void){..}. Does that one function’s implementation need to 
> populate mysqlKeyReadRequests (and any other sub-OIDS), or should 
> there be a separate function to initialize mysqlKeyReadRequests (i.e. 
> I messed up the MIB file)?
>
> Any advice would be appreciated.
>
> John A.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT
> Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your
> opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash
> http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> _______________________________________________
> 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
>   


-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT
Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your
opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash
http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV
_______________________________________________
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