Thus spake Mike Andrews
I thought they fixed this in NMC 6.x...?
In 5.x and earlier it would actually kill the whole IP stack on the card and you had to reboot the NMC. I thought I tested 6.1.7 and it didn't kill the card anymore.
Well...it is fixed so that it doesn't kill the Agent anymore. But they didn't fix it enough so that you can get responses to your large get. Your get still times out...but at least you don't have to go back and reboot the card (which is particularly difficult to do when you don't have an functional SNMP Agent on it) now. Oh...and it didn't seem to kill the whole IP stack for me...the card was still pingable...just no SNMP response from it...like it killed the agent.
Anyway, the reason I have that ma_snmp.pm wrapper around all my SNMP code is because there's a workaround for that bug in there, among other things... It takes the array of OIDs you're going to query and breaks them up into chunks small enough to make the card happy, then reassembles the responses.
Yeah...I've been writing code today to do essentially that...at least proof of concept code so I know how to do it...maybe now that I've worked out the details of what I have to do to work around this crazyness I can get back to actually writing useful code. :) -- Jeff McAdams Email: jeffm@iglou.com Head Network Administrator Voice: (502) 966-3848 IgLou Internet Services (800) 436-4456 - To unsubscribe to usr-tc, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe usr-tc" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message.