Re: How to configure net-snmp to expose the agentx_send_ping() function

Larry Hayes <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.net-snmp.user
Message-ID <CAG3KfNZHqUWNFWQ6y9Aid8oA1q_toBMk0subas7n0bz5FBK=OQ@mail.gmail.com>
Thanks for the suggestion.

I eventually just modified the bit bake recipe  to copy out the needed
header files to a destination in the search path.

Larry


On Sun, Mar 18, 2018 at 2:35 PM Bill Fenner <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Larry,
>
> I don't have a direct answer to your question: I don't know if there's a
> way to call agentx_send_ping() from your own subagent.  But, I can share
> what works for me to check if the session is established, which is to check
> if "main_session != NULL".  main_session is defined in
> <net-snmp/agent/snmp_agent.h>.
>
>   Bill
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 11:46 AM, Larry Hayes <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> OS: Linux
>> Net-SNMP version: 5.7.3
>> Build Env: OpenEmbedded yocto
>>
>> I am trying to build a sub agent that generates traps for events
>> originating from another process.
>> I do not want to start trying to generate traps until the snmpd agent is
>> running.
>>
>> So I am trying to use agentx_send_ping() to detect when the snmpd agent
>> is up.
>>
>> I have this working.  But my question is there any configuration options
>> that will install the needed header files in a DEST_DIR/usr/include
>> directory so I can build my sub agent in a somewhat normal way without
>> adding install copy lines to copy the headers out
>>
>> I see the net-snmp headers being installed in a xxx/usr/include/net-snmp
>> directory but the header that includes the the agentx_send_ping() seems to
>> live outside of the net-snmp directory in an agent directory.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Larry
>>
>>
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