Re: How to attach proprietary system to Net-Snmp?

On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 20:18:55 +0100 Ekkehard wrote:
ED> PC Running Net-SNMP and my Application
ED> +- MasterDevice attached via serial Interface
ED> +- First SubDevice connected to the Master
ED> +- Second SubDevice, could be same type as First SubDevice
ED> ...
ED> +- up to hundreds of SubDevices
ED>
ED> The MIB design runs into a deadlock. Since the "SubDevices" could be up to
ED> hundred devices and the devices have a lot of different properties I could
ED> not make a table of devices (since tables could only hold one record).

What do you mean by 'tables could only hold one record'?

ED> if I make a table containing only the Root-OID of the "SubDevices" how
ED> could I access the different devices of the same style?
ED> Since the "SubDevices" have no different IP Address I could not redirect
ED> the Manager to the "SubDevices"

Read over this entry in my FAQ, and see if you it helps.

http://www.freesnmp.com/net-snmp/faq....html#multidev

Another idea would be to do something similar to the host resources mib. One
table defines all the rows with their types, and each specific type has it's
own table for type specific parameters.

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