Re: What *should* Net-SNMP do with a busted resource?

Peter Martin <[email protected]> wrote:
>Having experienced similar failures over the years,(with my own agent 
>code as well - blush), I would say, the agent should be designed to be 
>robust in the face of badly behaved or wrongly configured systems. After 
>all, typing 'cat xyz' does not crash the shell if xyz is missing, so 
>querying a resource that is broken should not crash the agent.
>Having to go round and restart several hundred agents on remote systems 
>because someone queried a broken resource is not time well spent.

Thank you. I absolutely agree; my query was in case there was some subtlety that I was missing that would suggest that the current behavior is correct.  You have confirmed my position -- always a popular choice ;-)

Cheers,

...phsiii


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