Receiving traps in Perl - sometimes values have type prefixes

 

I'm running NetSNMP 'snmptrapd' 5.4.2.1, and have configured it to call
a perl trap handler using a "perl do filename.pl" line in
snmptrapd.conf.  System is Slackware Linux 12.2 (2.6.27.7-smp) with the
included Perl 5.10.0.

 

The question I have is why do I see prefixes on the first trap that I
receive and not subsequent traps?  In the first trap, I will see the
following incoming:

OID = SNMPv2-SMI::enterprises.1031.5.1.1.0

Value = STRING: "My Account"

 

But on subsequent traps, the prefixes do not appear:

OID = enterprises.1031.5.1.1.0

Value = "My Account"

 

 

This is easy (tho annoying) to code around, but why does it happen?
Which style is the correct form to expect?

 

 

Eric C. Webb
Sr. Systems Analyst / Unix System Administrator


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