Hello dilip.renkila,

If you want to probe each OID once only, then choroba’s approach is the correct one. But if you want to repeatedly re-probe the OIDs in batches of 50, you will need a circular list. See How do I handle circular lists? Here is one method:

#! perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Tie::Cycle;

my @oids = (1 .. 370);

tie my $oid, 'Tie::Cycle', \@oids;

my $answer = 'Y';

while ($answer !~ /N/i)
{
    print "Starting iteration\n";

    print "probe $oid\n" for 1 .. 50;

    print "Continue? ";
    $answer = <STDIN>;
}

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This should give you an idea of how to proceed.

Hope that helps,

Athanasius <°(((>< contra mundum Iustus alius egestas vitae, eros Piratica,

In reply to Re: limiting number of snmp requests by Athanasius
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