On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 11:26:37AM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Looking at the snmpd.conf manpage, I see that the types that can be returned
> from a script called via pass or pass_persist are as follows:
> 
> "The second line should be the TYPE of value returned, where TYPE is one of
> the text strings: string, integer, unsigned, objectid, timeticks, ipaddress,
> counter, or gauge."
> 
> There are more types in snmp than this.

Yes, you are right - they have missed counter64 and opaque in that collection.

I suppose the pass support could use some updating, or at least that the man
page could use it if it is fixed in the code.

> I take it that I cannot pass back a truth value?

Well, TruthValue is a textual convention that maps boolean values onto an
INTEGER with the values true(1) and false(2) so you could do it by returning
integer and either 1 or 2.

/MF


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