Re: Newbie lacks general mechanics

2009-01-09 Thread Dave Shield
2009/1/8 Larry Brown larry.br...@dimensionnetworks.com: As I understand it the part of the OID that is returned depends on its existence in the MIB. There is no part of the OID. OIDs (object identifiers) are atomic. I'm not sure I agree. The OID that is returned from a query

Re: Newbie lacks general mechanics

2009-01-09 Thread Larry Brown
On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 08:37 +, Dave Shield wrote: What I expected was some way of describing to the snmpd agent where to get the value to return. That tends to be hard-coded into the agent (or subagent) binary. This is what I deduced but couldn't find a description that stated

Newbie lacks general mechanics

2009-01-08 Thread Larry Brown
Hello all, I've read a number of articles around on snmp and have a fundamental theory going as to how this works at a macro level but need some confirmation. Any assistance will be greatly appreciated. As I understand it the part of the OID that is returned depends on its existence in the MIB.

RE: Newbie lacks general mechanics

2009-01-08 Thread Mike Ayers
From: Larry Brown [mailto:larry.br...@dimensionnetworks.com] Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 11:26 AM Hello all, I've read a number of articles around on snmp and have a fundamental theory going as to how this works at a macro level but need some confirmation. Any assistance will be