[AGENT++] Re: NULL values in a successful Get response

[Frank Fock]

maom_onet at poczta.onet.pl wrote:

>>Hi Marek,
>>
>>I cannot reproduce your problem. What version of AGENT++ are
>>you
>>using? Does this behavior also occurs with other tables in your 
>>agent?
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>Hi Frank,
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>I answer from another account - sorry for breaking the thread.
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>As I wrote in the previous post, this is Agent++ version is 3.5.20a, SNMP++: 3.2.13. It happens for a dynamically (on-the-fly) created table of interfaces. It does not happen with other agents, e.g., Windows SNMP service. I did not expect you would be able to reproduce the problem, as this is probably specific for our agent. 
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>My question is, is this a legal response and, assuming that all MIB entries exist, what is the most likely reason for these NULLs? Note that always the first VB is non-empty (non-NULL) and all others for this specific table and SNMPv1 are NULL-ed.
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>Marek
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Returning NULL values in GET requests ist not allowed by SNMP.
A likely reason for this misbehavior may be, that the request is
answered too early (thus before the other VBs have been processed).

Hope this helps.

Best regards,
Frank