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J. David Blackstone has a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Engineering and nine years of experience at a wireless telecommunications company, where he learned Perl and never looked back. J. David has an advantage in that he works really hard, he has a passion for writing good software, and he knows many of the world's best Perl programmers.
SNMP
I'm still having my SNMP problem (and after yesterday, I'm not really any closer than I was on Monday. Today I'm trying every other SNMP module I can find, and any other ideas I have. If it doesn't work by the end of the day, I'm going to forget using the module and just parse the output of the snmpwalk command. Sigh.
Presently I think I'm installing an alternative module to Net::SNMP which will actually talk directly to the same library that snmpwalk uses. I suppose Net::SNMP is a pure Perl implementation of the protocol.
I did discover that when I try to do what snmpwalk does, which I think consists of repeated calls to get_next_request, it simply skips this Counter64 value (I should get the MIB that points at it returned at some point, but I never do; it simply returns the next non-Counter64 value), while when I pass in that MIB directly to get_request, it gives me this error: "Received noSuchName(2) error-status at error-index 1." Whatever that is.
--Donald E. Knuth
What version? (Score:1)
Re:What version? (Score:2)
Hmmm, I was pretty sure it was version 2 (or version 2c???) for both, but you raise a good point that I should check that. Thank you.
J. David works really hard, has a passion for writing good software, and knows many of the world's best Perl programmers
Re:What version? (Score:2)
THANK YOU!!!!!! That was my problem!!!
Net::SNMP defaults to version 1. I'm using version 2 with snmpwalk. (Actually apparently the formal name is 2c, but Net::SNMP names it "2".)
I had only thought to be explicit about the version with snmpwalk, which wanted to use 3 by default and failed to work at all, with noisy error messages. Using 1 only silently failed for the Counter64's.
I owe you a drink sometime, but since I don't buy alcohol, maybe we'll make it a soda and a burger. :) Thank you so much
J. David works really hard, has a passion for writing good software, and knows many of the world's best Perl programmers
Re:What version? (Score:1)
Re:What version? (Score:2)
Wow; yeah. Didn't realize you were in the area. I definitely owe you lunch, so we'll have to arrange that at some point.
J. David works really hard, has a passion for writing good software, and knows many of the world's best Perl programmers