I would like to store the data created by the Net-SNMP Perl Module SNMP.pm during SNMP::initMib();

I want to store %SNMP::MIB as an object, but I'm not sure if it is possible since it is a tied hash into the Net-SNMP library.

The initMib() function takes about 9s to execute since it processes many MIBs. These MIBs do not change so I'm thinking that if I could skip this step and just read in an object created from %SNMP::MIB I could save almost all of those 9 seconds.

I don't know if SNMP::initMib() creates the full structure of %SNMP::MIB of if files are still accessed when I look up values via OID within %SNMP::MIB. Anytime I try to traverse that hash I get an 'out of memory' error. Here is some code where I try to dump it. 
use SNMP;
use Data::Dumper;
use strict;

if(not $ENV{'MIBS'}) {
$ENV{'MIBS'} = 'ALL';
}

if(not $ENV{'MIBDIRS'}) {
$ENV{'MIBDIRS'} = '/usr/share/snmp/private:/usr/share/snmp/mibs';
}

&SNMP::initMib();

$Data::dumper::Maxdepth = 2;
$Data::dumper::Maxrecurse = 2;
$Data::dumper::Deparse = 1;
print Dumper(\%SNMP::MIB);

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Anyone know if it is possible to do what I'm trying to do? If so, what is the best way?

In reply to Storing a tied hash of SNMP by linxdev

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