Re: experience on creating instances in scotty-2.0.2 agent (repost)

Juergen Schoenwaelder (schoenw@cs.utwente.nl)
Thu, 9 May 1996 20:16:00 +0200

ispuser@sjepson.amteva.com wrote:

> Using scotty 2.02 I am running into a problem where the agent is
> responding to two queries from the manager. The manager is
> requesting a SNMP Packet Type: getnext and the agent responds to
> it. Then the manager sends another getnext request. The agent then
> calls a random mib binding and returns garbage, and sometimes an
> error.

This sounds like a serious bug. Can you please make a short example
file which triggers this bug? This usually makes it easier to fix the
problem.

> Does my agent have to somehow tell the manager there is nothing
> more to get, or is this how it is supposed to work?

No, you don't have to worry about this. You register your instances
and everything else is the job of the SNMP engine.

Juergen