Mib question

[Frank Fock]

Hi Ron,

Yes, SNMP can handle big tables with more than 10.000 entries.
However, with AGENT++ you should (currently) not use the
MibTable class to model such a table, because that would consume
a lot of memory (>64 MBytes). In version 3.4.7 of AGENT++
the MibTable class will be optimized, so the memory consumption
for MibTable tables will be drastically reduced (although the
processing time will slightly increase).

Nevertheless, it is always better to model large tables (which are
most likely read-only tables) as virtual tables. This can be done
with AGENT++ by subclassing MibComplexEntry.

You can browse the mailing list archive for details on the usage
of that class.

Best regards,
Frank

Ron Sperber - Israel wrote:

> Hi,
> I'm new to Agent++ so I hope my question will not sound not in place.
> My agent will have to report the statuses of about 10,000 remote pc's. The
> statuses are held in an sql server (on the same machine of the agent).
> I thought of constructing a table where each row represents a pc status
> (containing its up/down status, ip address and so on).
> Is it feasible ? (I mean - is Snmp intended to hold tables with thousands of
> entries ?) and if so - Is there a way to avoid building the entire table in
> memory ? - and instead Just read the correct value from the sql server ?
> Thanks in advance ,
>                         Ron

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