Regarding MibTable::update()

[Cheng Chaoting]

Hi Frank,

Thanks for your reply.Could you tell me where i can find these
discussions?What is the date?

Thanks,
Cheng Chaoting



----- Original Message -----
From: "Frank Fock" <Frank.Fock____t-online.de>
To: "Cheng Chaoting" <chengchaoting____huawei.com>
Cc: <agentpp-dl____agentpp.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2003 1:35 PM
Subject: Re: Regarding MibTable::update()


> Hi Cheng,
>
> we had this dicussion on the list a few days ago.
> How often the update method is being called depends
> on the browser/NMS used. There are inefficient
> implementations, but that's nothing unusual.
>
> Addtional comments inline:
>
> Cheng Chaoting wrote:
> > Hi Frank,
> >
> > I want to use MibTable::update to get data rows from other data
> > sources(for instance,database),then flush the instance of mib table
> > ,which is in Agent's memory.
> >
> > When I tested it using AdventNet Mib browser as snmp manager, i found
> > that the MibTable::update function was always called multiple times,more
> > than once.I guess MibTable::update only needs to be called once.
> >
>
> It is called only once in the best case.
>
> > And,when I send get request to table A,some neighbor tables'
> > MibTable::update functions also are called.What is the reason?
> >
> The agent needs to find the object/table to handle the
> search or get request. Which object to choose also depends
> on whether a neighbouring table is empty or not.
>
> > Could you please explain?And,any solution?
> >
> Please read the mailing list archive too for more
> details. There have been also posted some "solutions".
>
> Regards,
> Frank
>
>