Re: Re: How to renew (update) data stored on a OID for a get request?

Dave Shield wrote:
> On 12/02/2008, Simon Huebner <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I want to update data stored on a OID every time a get-request for this
>> OID comes in!
>> A AgentX stores the data but only on startup.
> 
> Not true.
> It depends how you implement the MIB module.
> 
>> Is there a way to call the init_... function before answer a get-request?
> 
> No - the init_xxx() function is indended for any one-off initialisation
> ((registering the MIB objects, registering snmpd.conf tokens,
> initialising any subsystems that this module might need).
> 
> When a GET or other request comes in, the agent will call the
> relevant handler to provide the current value.   That's where you
> would put the code to update the data.
> 
> 
> How have you coded your MIB module?
> What helper(s) are you using?
>    That might affect what your code might look like.
> 
> Dave

I fill the hrSWInstalledTable from HOST-RESOURCES-MIB with the output 
from dpkg.

I store the data like in the tutorial "A table of data, stored within 
the agent" (http://www.net-snmp.org/dev/agent/data__set_8c-example.html)

Thanks for help,
Simon


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