Re: subagent - how long can it take to respond to a get request?

2006-09-04 Thread Dave Shield
On 01/09/06, Nikanth K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How does the Master agent react to repeat requests ? It processes them. > Does it identify it. No > If it does, does it ignore the responses for the earlier requests. No. > Does it ignore the later requests/responses etc. No. Dave ---

Re: subagent - how long can it take to respond to a get request?

2006-08-31 Thread Nikanth K
On 8/31/06, Dave Shield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 31/08/06, Nikanth K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> > So can I take around 30 secs to respond? Will that be acceptable?>> If I do that will SNMP walk work without any glitches? 30 seconds is a little bit long.A typical management application would p

Re: subagent - how long can it take to respond to a get request?

2006-08-31 Thread Nikanth K
That's how the Net-SNMP client tools work, yes.They'll make the request, and if they don't receive an answer within a reasonable time, they'll try again.  Only when a certain number ofretries have timed out will they report failure.Try   "snmpgetnext -d ." to see this happening.But a typical se

Re: subagent - how long can it take to respond to a get request?

2006-08-31 Thread Dave Shield
On 31/08/06, Nikanth K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It is just a one-off overhead for the entire set of values OK - then use the cache handler. This has a routine to load all of the values (incurring the 30s overhead and probable timeout), but these values are then used for subsequent requests (h

Re: subagent - how long can it take to respond to a get request?

2006-08-31 Thread Nikanth K
On 8/31/06, Dave Shield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 31/08/06, Nikanth K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> > So can I take around 30 secs to respond? Will that be acceptable?>> If I do that will SNMP walk work without any glitches? 30 seconds is a little bit long.A typical management application would p

Re: subagent - how long can it take to respond to a get request?

2006-08-31 Thread Dave Shield
On 31/08/06, Nikanth K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So can I take around 30 secs to respond? Will that be acceptable? >> If I do that will SNMP walk work without any glitches? 30 seconds is a little bit long. A typical management application would probably give up before then. If you can contro

Re: subagent - how long can it take to respond to a get request?

2006-08-31 Thread Nikanth K
On 8/31/06, Nikanth K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 8/31/06, Dave Shield < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 31/08/06, Jayaprakasha Guddenahalli Naganna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> >>I know that SNMP works over UDP. >  >>I am developing a subagent over agentx > Agentx will be over TCP.Yes -

Re: subagent - how long can it take to respond to a get request?

2006-08-31 Thread Nikanth K
On 8/31/06, Dave Shield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 31/08/06, Jayaprakasha Guddenahalli Naganna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> >>I know that SNMP works over UDP.>  >>I am developing a subagent over agentx > Agentx will be over TCP.Yes - but that's the communication between the master age

Re: subagent - how long can it take to respond to a get request?

2006-08-31 Thread Dave Shield
On 31/08/06, Jayaprakasha Guddenahalli Naganna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>I know that SNMP works over UDP. > >>I am developing a subagent over agentx > Agentx will be over TCP. Yes - but that's the communication between the master agent and the subagent. The communication between

RE: subagent - how long can it take to respond to a get request?

2006-08-31 Thread Jayaprakasha Guddenahalli Naganna
>>I know that SNMP works over UDP. >>I am developing a subagent over agentx     Agentx will be over TCP. >>So how long can I take or is there any other way in the SNMP protocol itself to solve this issue?     By default snmpget will wait for 5 seconds and resends the requ

Re: subagent - how long can it take to respond to a get request?

2006-08-31 Thread Thomas Anders
Nikanth K wrote: > I know that SNMP works over UDP. > I am developing a subagent over agentx. When I get a GEt request I need to > do some calculations based on the values at that time and return it. > It takes some time to fetch & calculate those value. So how long can I take > or is there any oth