Re: sending traps

Dave Shield <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.net-snmp.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
2009/3/30 Tanisha Kashyap <[email protected]>:
> My sole purpose is to actually make an agent which would implement a get/set request
> on a MIB object and would also implement sending traps.

OK - in that case Sazid is quite correct.
You should use one of the agent trap API calls.

Please see the FAQ for a discussion for sending traps from the agent.


> I would be generating the skeleton code using mib2c and compile to produce a .so file.
> Il then embed the path of this .so file into the snmpd.conf of the master agent. So
> whenever the master agent is up my subagent also comes up.

Strictly speaking, that's a "dynamically loaded module", rather than a separate
subagent.   But the distinction doesn't really matter too much.
   (Except that it might confuse the list if you talk about a
"subagent" in this context)


> I need your inputs on this approach as well.

That approach should work fine.

Dave

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