Re: Subagentx : how to define the path where MIBS are installed

>From: "Dave Shield" <D.T.Shield@csc.liv.ac.uk>
>To: "Arnaud BODENAN" <arnboden@hotmail.com>
>CC: net-snmp-users@lists.sourceforge.net
>Subject: Re: Subagentx : how to define the path where MIBS are installed
>Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 10:36:51 +0100
>
>On 13/10/06, Arnaud BODENAN <arnboden@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Is it useful for an agent to know the path where the MIBS are installed?
>
>Depends on whether it needs to use them, or not.
>If it loads the MIB files, this slighty increases the startup time and
>memory usage.
>If it doesn't load the MIB files, then it can't understand config lines
>such as
>
> view systemView included system
>or
> monitor "processes" prErrorFlag = 1
>
>
>If you don't want to load the MIB files, it's better to suppress the
>list of MIBs to load, rather than pointing the agent to a dummy
>location. If you do that, then there's a slight hit when the agent
>start up, and the logs fill up with error messages.
> If you set MIBS="", then the agent simply doesn't try to load any
>MIB files at all.

How can I set the MIBS to ""? Do i use NETSNMP_DS_LIB_MIBDIRS to achieve
that? Do I use setenv("MIBS", "", 1)?


>
>
> > Does the agent behave differently if it loads the MIBS or not?
>
>Yes - see above.
>
>Dave
>
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