Re^3: SNMP Trap not working with Perl 5.8.3

the last part of the dumb questions -- you *do* have all the required SNMP libs on the machine you're trying to send traps from ....

[meo@host dir]$ ps ax | grep sn
  617 ?        S      0:34 /usr/sbin/snmpd -s -l /dev/null -P /var/run
+/snmpd -a
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i'd hate for it to be something like that. IIRC, Net::SNMP is an *interface* to SNMP, not a replacement *for* SNMP

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Re^4: SNMP Trap not working with Perl 5.8.3 by kragen (Sexton) on Jun 09, 2004 at 21:10 UTC
Net::SNMP doesn't depend on any SNMP libraries other than itself; it's a full implementation of SNMP. Clearly it can't be a replacement for SNMP, because SNMP is a protocol, while Net::SNMP is a Perl module. Whether or not there is an snmpd process running doesn't have anything to do with either the presence of SNMP libraries or Net::SNMP. Finally, if Net::SNMP (or nearly any Perl module) is missing one of its dependencies, it won't fail silently; it will raise an exception.	[reply]

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Re^4: SNMP Trap not working with Perl 5.8.3
by kragen (Sexton) on Jun 09, 2004 at 21:10 UTC

Net::SNMP doesn't depend on any SNMP libraries other than itself; it's a full implementation of SNMP. Clearly it can't be a replacement for SNMP, because SNMP is a protocol, while Net::SNMP is a Perl module. Whether or not there is an snmpd process running doesn't have anything to do with either the presence of SNMP libraries or Net::SNMP. Finally, if Net::SNMP (or nearly any Perl module) is missing one of its dependencies, it won't fail silently; it will raise an exception.

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