Thanks for the reply. On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Nikos Balkanas <nbalka...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I am doing the exact same thing, still not finished, but further along the > way. > The documentation is very clear on that. Please check the tutorials: > > 1) Subagent http://www.net-snmp.org/wiki/index.php/TUT:Writing_a_Subagent > 2) Shared object > http://www.net-snmp.org/wiki/index.php/TUT:Writing_a_Dynamically_Loadable_Object > 3) Chaging the master agent > http://www.net-snmp.org/wiki/index.php/TUT:Writing_a_MIB_Module
If I understand it right, these tutorials describe how I can plug my own MIB module, with knowledge of how to access my server application's variables, into the agent. Since I don't want to (and I guess I'm not supposed to either) incorporate my entire server into this module, the MIB module will have to communicate with my server application somehow. > All of these provide a custom handler placeholder that you can place your > own code to interface with your application. Of course you will need to add > support from your application to serve these requests and fire traps. Yes, but this is still unclear to me. Am I supposed to start the agent and my server application as two separate processes, and make them communicate with each other (through the MIB module)? Or can I just plug the Net-SNMP agent into my server application, and have my MIB module retrieve the needed information through simple function calls? -- Bart > Start by writing your own MIB (definition) file describing your variables. > Then try mib2c to see if it can generate the code for you from the MIB. I > couldn't get it to work for me (Solaris 10.5), so I had to tough it out from > scratch using the examples http://www.net-snmp.org/dev/agent/examples.html > > BR, > Nikos > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bart Cornelissen" > <bart.cornelis...@uhasselt.be> > To: <net-snmp-users@lists.sourceforge.net> > Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2009 12:43 PM > Subject: Integrating net-SNMP agent into my application > > >> Hi, >> >> We have written a server application that we would like to extend with >> some monitoring support. The goal is to expose some variables that >> describe the status of these servers, so their status can be easily >> visualized with a remote application. >> Is there a way to integrate the Net-SNMP agent module into our >> application? The documentation only seems to mention how to extend the >> agent application, but not the other way around. Reorganizing our >> project so that the servers start up from within the Net-SNMP agents >> seems a way too drastic change, since the monitoring should be an >> optional feature anyway. >> >> Or am I looking at it the wrong way? I don't have any experience with >> Net-SNMP, or SNMP even. >> >> Thanks, >> Bart ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Net-snmp-users mailing list Net-snmp-users@lists.sourceforge.net Please see the following page to unsubscribe or change other options: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/net-snmp-users
