[SNMP4J] Having Agent respond to SNMP get requests

[pradip de]

Hi,
How hard is it to instrument a custom MIB without using AgenPro. Moreover,
is the CustomMib.java file the only code generated by AgenPro for a given
CustomMIB to be fit into the agent or are there other code pieces too that
are generated as part of the MIB instrumentation? I have gone through the
SNMP4J-Agent-Instrumentation-HowTo PDF and the Snmp4JHeartBeat MIB therein
and seem to understand the mechanism to a significant extent.
thanks,
Pradip

On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 10:37 AM, pradip de <pradip.de at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks Frank. I will go through the agent instrumentation pdf.
>
> best,
> Pradip
>
> On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Frank Fock <fock at agentpp.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Pradip,
>>
>> pradip de wrote:
>>
>>> 1) Is it possible to intercept a snmpget packet in the TestAgent code and
>>> manually construct its reply with the data that I want to send out? or,
>>>
>>
>> Why would you want to do that?
>> If you want to write your own agent framework, you
>> should start with SNMP4J only.
>>
>>  2) Should I have to map the measurement data that I want to use into a
>>> MIB
>>> and then have the Agent use that to reply to a snmpget?
>>>
>>
>> That's the way to go. There are a lot of approaches to
>> instrument the agent. The most popular are described in the
>> SNMP4J-Agent-Instrumentation-HowTo PDF coming with AgenPro.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Frank
>>
>>
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>>
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