Writing subagent for HPUX.. Need help!

[Frank Fock]

Hi Brad,

AFAIK, the default HPUX agent does not use AgentX
for its subagent interface. So, unless you
upgrade your HPUX agent to support AgentX,
you won't be able to use an AgentX++ subagent
with it.

Regards,
Frank

Brad Lowe wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am working on writing a subagent for HPUX. Can AgentX++ work with the
> existing hpux snmpdm? The AgentX++ subagent does not run (it example code is
> unable to bind to anything.
> 
> The existing HPUX snmpdm can bind to three kinds of subAgents:
> 
>     (1) Loosely coupled subAgents or separate process subAgents which
>         open IPC communication channels to communicate with the Master
>         Agent
>     (2) Shared library subAgents which are dynamically linkable libraries.
>     (3) Remotely coupled subagents which could run on a different
>            processor or operating system and communicate with the Master
>            Agent using TCP.
> 
> It looks like the AgentX++ Pro is the way to go.. Since there are make
> examples for HPUX11. But I'm not sure where to go from here.
> 
> Output from the subagent example follows:
>  (2)EVENT  : SubAgentXMib: opening socket
>  (1)INFO   : SubAgentX: bound local (socket)(sd):
> (/var/agentx/subagent20702), (3)
>  (1)ERROR  : AgentX: could not connect unix domain socket (location):
> (/var/agentx/master)
>  (1)EVENT  : AgentXSlave: listening on TCP (socket)(port): (3), (705)
>  (1)ERROR  : AgentX: could not connect TCP socket (port)(errno): (705),
> (239)
>  (1)ERROR  : SuAgentXMib: could not bind any port. Aborting.
>  (1)WARNING: SubAgentXMib: not conntected with master agent!
> 
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Brad Lowe
> 
>