RE: Agent command line options

I think snmp looks for a file called bla.conf where bla is the name of your subagent...is this the name of your file u r reading into your custom function?  I could be wrong cuz I'm a newbie but if this is the case then try renaming the file to something elsse.

Steve

> Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 11:32:45 -0600
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Agent command line options
> 
> I'm writing an agent which takes a few command line switches, including a YAML
> configuration file. My agent initializes itself like this:
> 
> init_agent("some string");
> init_mibs();
> init_snmp("some string");
> 
> init_mibs() is my own function that registers the MIBs this agent will
> support.
> 
> The problem is that my agent needs some special configuration, so I've given
> it a command line switch (-Q, to be specific, which I've picked mostly
> randomly, trying to not break anything); the user should follow that switch
> with the name of a YAML file providing the necessary configuration.
> 
> All this works fine. init_mibs() calls the stuff I need it to call to read the
> YAML file and claim some OIDs. But then, init_snmp() gets called, which ends
> up calling Net-SNMP's read_config(), which tries to re-read my YAML config
> file, and spits out lots of errors about unknown tokens and invalid blank
> lines and things.
> 
> How can I pass this config file to my agent without read_config() trying to
> parse it as an snmpd config file? Thanks.
> 
> --
> Joshua Tolley / eggyknap
> End Point Corporation
> http://www.endpoint.com
 		 	   		  
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