Newbie question: generating v3 trap

[D. R. Evans]

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Well, I'm glad that the weekend is about to start.

I spent four hours today poring over the agent++ code trying to figure out how 
to get to the snmp_target_mib once it's been added with the 

mib.add(new snmp_target_mib());

command, and I still haven't been able to see how it's supposed to be done.

I simplified the problem I was trying to solve, because if I could only find out 
how my agent was supposed to read values in the snmpTargetAddrTable, I could 
work out everything from that point on. At this point, I'd be happy just to be 
able to get to anything at all in the SNMP-TARGET-MIB that's been added to the 
"mib" variable.

(Incidentally, in case it isn't clear, it's obvious how to get to it from a 
manager by using the process_request() function in the agent. It's how to get at 
it from inside the agent that I still don't understand.)

I really am not dense, although people here might be excused for thinking that I 
am. I do understand SNMP, enough to be dangerous anyway; it's the "how to use 
agent++ to do what I want" that I don't understand.

Incidentally, I did go out and buy the Zeltserman book, but it just seems to be 
a mid-level rewrite of parts of the RFCs, along with some background to provide 
context. I haven't seen anything in there that helps me understand the 
practicalities of using agent++ :-(

It is clear to me from the archives that other people have cottoned on to using 
agent++ more or less instantly; I'm obvously missing something very, very 
elementary and once the answer becomes known I shall kick myself hard. I'm not 
blaming agent++ at all -- it looks excellent -- it's my own inability to see the 
trick in using it that annoys me more than anything.

Anyway, it's the weekend and I'm going to try not to think about this stuff for 
a day or two.

  Doc Evans



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