Hi Tim,

It is compiled as a shared object which is  dynamically loaded in to the
snmpd agent using the dlmod snmpd conf directive.

So, it can't read in arguments of its own.

Tim


-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Cox [mailto:timmiles...@gmx.ch] 
Sent: 17 February 2015 14:04
To: Tim Culhane
Cc: net-snmp-coders@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: getting shared objects to read configuration in snmpd.conf


Tim

Why can't your application read a config file of its own?

Or look at its command line arguments?

Best Regards

Tim


Am 17.02.2015 um 13:20 schrieb Tim Culhane:

> Hi,
> 
> Apologies for cross posting:
> 
> I'm writing a c shared object which will connect to a proprietary 
> server via telnet and read back performance and status counters.
> 
> I don't want to hardcode the connection details such as IP address, 
> port number and password for the proprietary server into my shared object.
> 
> What I would like to do is have the shared object read the information 
> from the snmpd.conf file or similar location.
> 
> Is it possible to add custom settings to the snmpd.conf file which can 
> then be read by a shared object?
> 
> Are there help functions in the snmpd library for doing this in an 
> efficient way?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Tim
> 
> 
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