Decreasing the wait in RequestList::receive

[Simpson, Gary]

Hello,

I now have a simple SNMP agent in AGENT++ running as a subagent on a Solaris
platform.  I am intending for this SNMP agent to retrieve data provided by
our other applications, through UNIX shared memory.  I think that I can do
this by just overriding the process_request method to update the MIB entries
from values in shared memory, before processing the request.

However, I also want the other applications to be able to raise traps (by
writing the trap details to shared memory for the agent to process).  This
would mean that the agent needs to read the shared memory periodically to
see if any traps need to be raised.

I was wandering if I can pass in a value of 3 seconds or so into
RequestList::receive, instead of 120 seconds, so that I can call another
method in the main loop to look for trap requests.  Is it important what
this value is set to and does it matter if it is set to such a low value?

Thanks, Gary.


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