On Fri, 2005-04-29 at 18:38, Wes Hardaker wrote:
> You guys seem to think that the *only* time you'll register an OID is
> if you want to control a scalar. I humbly disagree.
>
> Take the working and popular example of the "override" snmpd.conf
> token, which is implemented via an instance regist
> On Fri, 29 Apr 2005 13:41:38 +0100, Dave Shield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
Dave> I don't believe that the instance helper is particularly useful
Dave> - but I don't think that we should actually change the
Dave> functionality.
Bz
You guys seem to think that the *only* time you'll re
On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 00:52, Robert Story wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 16:00:51 +0100 Dave wrote:
> DS> In general, I'd tend to agree - I don't believe that the instance
> DS> handler is particularly useful.
> DS> But this is one of Wes' helpers, so I'm reluctant to simply
> DS> drop it.
> Don'
On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 16:00:51 +0100 Dave wrote:
DS> On Wed, 2005-04-27 at 15:44, Robert Story wrote:
DS> > However, it leaves me wondering why we shouldn't just merge the two.
DS> > When would one ever use the instance handler?
DS>
DS> a) I dunno, ask Wes. That's one of his
Ok. Wes?
DS> b)
On Wed, 2005-04-27 at 15:44, Robert Story wrote:
> However, it leaves me wondering why we shouldn't just merge the two.
> When would one ever use the instance handler?
a) I dunno, ask Wes. That's one of his
b) If (for some unexplained reason) you wanted
to implement a table one elemen
On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 10:12:17 +0100 Dave wrote:
DS> The same holds true for GET requests for sys{Contact,Location}.1
DS> or sys{Contact,Location}.0.99, etc, etc. In each case, an
DS> implementation using the instance handler would return the
DS> wrong exception ('noSuchObject'), while the scalar h
On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 21:52, Robert Story wrote:
> DS> Compare with scalar vs instance helpers. The scalar helper
> DS> is basically just a wrapper round the instance helper.
> DS> That works fine, IMO.
>
> Easy for you to say, you wrote them!
Actually, the instance helper is one of Wes'.
I wrot
