in reply to Writing a Perl net-snmp Agent

I've used the SNMP modules on a large project where I used SNMP to talk with different types of network equipment. The largest problem I encountered was not with the module but with the inconsistancy of the SNMP MIBs or rather how those MIBs were populated with data. There really needs to be a standard that everyone follows. /rant but what sort of road block have you encountered specificly, I might be able to help if I know what problems you are having.

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Re: Re: Writing a Perl net-snmp Agent
by linux454 (Pilgrim) on Apr 29, 2004 at 22:47 UTC
    Well, my problems are more related to fulfilling SNMP requests than asking requesting information from other hosts. I've just hit a void of documentation with regards of implementing a Table type of variable in my agent. For example I have something in my MIB that looks similar to: 
    ...
snmpExampleTable OBJECT-TYPE
    SYNTAX SEQUENCE OF TableEntry
    MAX-ACCESS not-accessible
    STATUS current
    ::= { parentOID 1 }

tableEntry OBJECT-TYPE
    SYNTAX TableEntry
    MAX-ACCESS not-accessible
    STATUS current
    INDEX { tableEntryIndex }
    ::= { snmpExampleTable 1 }

TableEntry ::= SEQUENCE {
    tableEntryIndex    DisplayString,
    tableEntryName   DisplayString,
    tableEntryVal       DisplayString
}

tableEntryIndex OBJECT-TYPE
    SYNTAX DisplayString
    MAX-ACCESS read-only
    STATUS current
    ::= { tableEntry 1 }

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    I'm not entirely sure what I need to pass to the NetSNMP::agent::netsnmp_request_infoPtr->setValue() method to get this table to work.
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