[SNMP4J] General getting started questions

[Doug Hughes]

Thank you very much for these answers!

Doug

On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 3:34 AM, Frank Fock <fock at agentpp.com> wrote:

> Hi Doug,
>
> Doug Hughes wrote:
>
>>
>> 1) In the snmp4j_tool download there is a SNMP4J-mac file.  Is this known
>> to
>> work at all on intel-based macs?  I receive this error when I attempt to
>> execute it:
>>
>> Java for ppc cannot run in this configuration.
>> Please consult documentation.
>> VM creation failed.
>>
>
> The SNMP4J-mac file is a binary which will
> work on some mac platforms. If it does
> not work on yours, then use
> "java -jar SNMP4J.jar" which will work
> always on all Java platforms.
>
>
>> 2) I believe I'm ultimately writing an SNMP agent.  Should I be looking
>> attempting to use SNMP4JAgent or SNMP4J?
>>
>
> You will need both, SNMP4J and on top SNMP4J-Agent.
>
>
>> 3) I was attempting to follow the asynchronous SNMPv1 sample inthe java
>> docs
>> here:  http://www.snmp4j.org/doc/org/snmp4j/Snmp.html.  First off, the
>> example didn't really work and received this message:  Unsupported message
>> processing model: 0.  I made a guess added a MessageDispatcher and that
>> caused a different error: Unsupported address class (transport mapping):
>> org.snmp4j.smi.IpAddress.  I'm not sure I understand this second error and
>> was hoping someone could shed some light on it.
>>
>
> IpAddress is not a transport protocol.
> You need to use a UdpAddress or TcpAddress instead
> to identify the target application (=port) on
> the target host.
>
> Best regards,
> Frank
>
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