Re: Q:did anybody think of porting scotty to java ?

Juergen Schoenwaelder (schoenw@gaertner.de)
Wed, 9 Jul 1997 01:39:54 +0200

bernd@finow.snafu.de (Bernd Hentig) said:

Bernd> OTOH, an SNMP API library written in Java would be useful for
Bernd> writing a *portable* MIB-2 agent with adequate performance,
Bernd> something you cannot do with Tcl (even not with version 8).

I strongly disagree here. Agents are highly system specific and you
will have a very hard time to get access to all the relevant MIB data
from the Java environment. You will end up writing native methods or
you have to go through expensive IPC stuff.

The Tnm SNMP agent stuff has never been intented to be used to write
real SNMP agents. It was written in order to prototype agents, to
experiment with new ideas and so on. Some people are using it for more
serious stuff which is fine if it works for them. However, I prefer to
hack the Linux SNMP agent if I want to get real things done.

Bernd> When I considered the various half-baken public SNMP agents
Bernd> available for the different flavours of UNIX (including Linux)
Bernd> and the design of the source code I immediately saw the urgent
Bernd> need for a joint =) effort on a portable version.

If people want to work on a free, portable high quality SNMP agent, go
ahead and implement an AgentX master. I see no reason why this can't
be done in a portable way and it gives us a standard interface to
separate the system specific parts from the SNMP protocol engine. I am
pretty sure that for example the maintainers of the Linux SNMP agent
would be happy to switch to an AgentX based solution. All we need is a
volunteer to work on the AgentX master or a company who makes an
implementation available under a suitable copyright.

Juergen

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