Thanks a lot for detailed replies. I just downloaded 5.2 and browsing through examples.
Robert Story, Can you please hint me at the specific example code that I need to look into. Thanks SrIdhar On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 11:14:18 -0500, "Robert Story" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 15:21:54 +0000 Dave wrote: > DS> On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 13:30, Sridhar S wrote: > DS> > I see a disadvantage here (please correct me if I am wrong). [...] > Then > DS> > agent has to iterate through all 100 interfaces to locate the > correct > DS> > one. right ? > DS> > DS> > Can we optimize it ? > DS> > DS> > so that agent gets the index/indicies under query > DS> > and the type of request (GET/GET-NEXT/SET). The agent, instead of > DS> > iterating through all the available rows, makes a direct query to > the > DS> > backend. > > If you know about all of the interfaces at startup, and know when > interfaces > appear/disappear, then any of the container based styles will work well. > > If you don't know when the appear/disappear, then the cache helper (as > opposed > to the stash_cache helper) can be used to periodically refresh the > container. > This would be faster than the stash_cache at populating the cache, and > marginally slower on a per-request basis since your helper would still > have to > be called to return the actual values. > > If you are using 5.2, then you can do exactly what you want to with the > container helpers and the cache helper. In 5.2, you can get a 'hint' from > the > cache helper on what varbinds are in a request. You can then use this > hint to > populate the container with the information for just that one row (or the > next > row, for a get-next request). > > -- > Robert Story; NET-SNMP Junkie > Support: <http://www.net-snmp.org/> <irc://irc.freenode.net/#net-snmp> > Archive: > <http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum=net-snmp-users> > > You are lost in a twisty maze of little standards, all different. ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek. It's fun and FREE -- well, almost....http://www.thinkgeek.com/sfshirt _______________________________________________ Net-snmp-users mailing list [email protected] Please see the following page to unsubscribe or change other options: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/net-snmp-users
