Hello, Monks! My question about using SNMP via perl. I trynig to get some values from snmp (I use net-snmp-5.2.1), and write simple script for this: 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
# vi:ts=4:sw=4

use strict;
use Getopt::Long;
use SNMP::Simple;

our %opt = (
        DestHost  => 'localhost',
        Community => 'public',
        Version   => 1,
        Timeout   => 1_000_000,
);
our $oid;

GetOptions(
        'h|host=s'      => \$opt{DestHost},
        'c|community=s' => \$opt{Community},
        'v|version=i'   => \$opt{Version},
        't|timeout=i'   => \$opt{Timeout},
        'o|oid=s'       => \$oid,
);

our $snmp = SNMP::Simple->new(%opt);

print $snmp->get($oid), "\n";

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When I run this - results is same as from snmpwalk for some queries: 
% snmpwalk -v 1 -c public localhost dskDevice.1
UCD-SNMP-MIB::dskDevice.1 = STRING: /dev/sda3
% ./snmp_get -o dskDevice.1
/dev/sda3

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But for system date it's different: 
% snmpwalk -v 1 -c public localhost hrSystemDate.0
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrSystemDate.0 = STRING: 2006-3-6,16:18:27.0,+2:0
% ./snmp_get -o hrSystemDate.0|od -t x1
0000000 07 d6 03 06 10 12 1d 00 2b 02 00 0a
0000014

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After searching man/inet/etc I found this (in man snmpcmd): 
-Ih    By  default, the library will use DISPLAY-HINT information when
       assigning values. This flag disables this behaviour. The result
       is that instead of
         snmpset localhost HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrSystemDate.0 = 2002-1
+2-10,2:4:6.8
       you will have to write
         snmpset localhost HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrSystemData.0 x "07 D2
+ 0C 0A 02 04 06 08"

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Also I tried to use Net::SNMP but resuls was same.

So, my question is: how I can change this behaviour in my perl scripts? how I can get date in string form using SNMP::Simple?

2006-03-06 Retitled by g0n, as per Monastery guidelines
Original title: 'SNMP::Simple'

In reply to how I can get date in string form using SNMP::Simple by cub.uanic

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