Re: [Fwd: Re: Q: how to create a simple agent deals with scalars]

Everything seems to work now. My extension agent also works. It didn't
work yesterday because my init function name didn't comply with the
init_FILENAME rule. Thank you so much.

Cheers

/Pan

> On 21/12/2007, Xuan Pan <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > OK.
>> > Just to confirm - does
>> >    "snmpgetnext -v 1 -c public localhost ip"
>> >
>> > still return a noSuchName error?
>>
>> This one seems to work.
>
> Good - that seems to be a change from earlier.
>
> What happens if you try to query your extension now?
>
>
>> snmpget -v 1 -c public localhost ipForwarding.0 also works
>> (but not the object ipForwarding.
>
> That's expected.
>
>>  I also walked further to get some other objects such
>> as ipDefaultTTL.0, ipInReceives.0... It seems they have
>> a sub-identifier '.0' for each of the objects)
>
> Correct.
> *All* MIB OIDs returned from an SNMP agent will
> always have some form of "instance sub-identifier".
> This will be the index values for table objects,
> and .0 for scalars.
>
>
> Now that the agent is returning information from
> the IP-MIB, it's worth trying your extension MIB again.
>
> Dave
>
> PS: Please note that I may not be around much over
> the next couple of weeks.  This is the last day before
> the University shuts for Christmas/New Year.
>



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