Thanks, Dave.

I will look into the issues you pointed out below

-madhu.

On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 1:23 PM, Dave Shield <d.t.shi...@liverpool.ac.uk>wrote:

> On 1 August 2012 07:23, Madhu Sudhana Rao <madhu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I think table is registering correctly, as I am getting snmpget output
> looks
> > correct
>
> Yes - that sounds reasonable.
>
>
> >   only problem is with snmpwalk and getnext
>
> I see from your code that you are using the iterator helper.
> This is designed to walk through the list of rows (using
> your 'get_first/get_next' hook routines), identify the appropriate
> row of the table for a GetNext request, and turn this into the
> equivalent Get request before passing it on to the MIB handler.
>
> So your myifTable_handler() will only ever see GET requests.
>
>
> I presume if you issue a "snmpget" request for an entry in this
> table, then you will see assorted "in mode-get" debug statements
> printed by the agent.   Are you seeing these?
>
> What happens if you issue a single "snmpgetnext" request for
> the same MIB object?   Do you see any "in mode-get" output or not?
>
> What about the 'get_first' debug statement?
> Try running the agent using '-Dtemp':
>    Do you see the 'if table get first' message with an "snmpget" request?
>    Do you see it with an "snmpgetnext" request?
>
>
>
>
> > I tried snmpwalk on nsModuleTable but I endup getting "no such object for
> > this OID" even though I added agent_mibs.h for --with-mib-modules option.
>
> You shouldn't need to give any additional options to configure.
> nsModuleTable is part of the standard build.   So it's a little worrying
> that you don't see it.
>
>
> > I gave few more details in the attachment please check and give your
> > suggestions/comments.
>
> First thing - your MIB file looks broken.
> From a quick glance:
>
>   - The name of the MIB must start with a capital letter
>     (MY-MIB, rather than my-MIB)
>
>   - The IMPORTS statement is incomplete.
>     There's a whole load of names (trapIdentifier, etc)
>     which are listed, but without the name of a MIB that
>     they are imported from.
>
>   - The module is rooted at 'my', but this is never defined or imported
>     (I'm actually very surprised you were able to run "mib2c" at all!)
>
>   - The SEQUENCE definition of the structure of a row of the table
>      must start with a capital letter
>         (MyifEntry, not myifEntry)
>
>   - myifTableIndex is defined as 'not-accessible' (which is correct)
>     but the code that registers the table has
>        table->min_column = 1
>             i.e. implies that myifTableIndex *is* accessible
>             (again, this indicates a mis-match between this MIB,
>              and whatever was passed to 'mib2c'
>
> I *strongly* suggest that you run any MIB you are developing through
> the smilint validation tool (or something similar) before trying to do
> anything with it.   That will pick up these errors - and probably many
> many more.
>
>
>
> Dave
>



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Thanks & Regards...
Madhu
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