[SNMP4J] diskIOWrites - cached responses

[Frank Fock]

Dave Shield schrieb:
> On 01/12/2007, Frank Fock <fock at agentpp.com> wrote:
>   
>> What seems to be strange, that a walk on diskIOWrites.5 returns
>> a diskIOWrites.5 instance. I would have expected an instance with OID >
>> diskIOWrites.5 instead.
>>     
>
> That's deliberate.
>
> Conceptually, the behaviour of snmpwalk is
>    "get me all the information from the subtree
>     rooted on the specified OID"
>
> If the OID is a leaf instance, then "all the information"
> is the corresponding value for this instance.
>   
That it works like described above was my first idea too, but
I could not find it documented in the snmpwalk specification
for the OID parameter.

Frank