Re: How SNMP agent access counters?

"Dave Shield" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.net-snmp.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 04/01/07, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am trying to undestand how SNMP agent for Linux  get access to MIB counters
> for an embedded system.
> Is there a known database location  ( like /proc)  that SNMP agent and the
> HW ( e.g drivers) are using?

It depends on the information you are trying to retrieve.
Some information is available via the /proc interface.
Some information is available via ioctl() or similar system calls.
Some information can be read from configuration or status files.
Some information is not available at all :-(

And when looking wider than just Linux, different O/Ss will often
have very different ways of retrieving the same basic information.
This is typically the hardest part of implementing a new MIB,
and is the one bit that can't be automated.

Dave

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