Subject: Re: Fwd: Agentx query

From: Randy Presuhn <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 11:43:21 -0700 (PDT)

Hi -

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> Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 15:17:27 +0530
> Subject: Agentx query
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> Is it possible that different sub agents register different instances of an
> object OR for a particular table implementation, some rows are with sub agent 1,
> some with sub agent 2 and so on. 

Yes.  It is also possible to register instances with the same OID but
in different contexts.

>                                  In this case, both the sub agents shall
> register their specific rows of the table supported by them, with Master Agent.
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> Could you let me know whether this is possible and issues what so ever arising
> out of this??
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It is possible.  There are some mibs, e.g. RFC 2564, that have
a fairly strong dependency on subagents having the ability
to do this.  It requires giving some thought to how index
values are assigned both during the design of the MIB as
well as in the implementation of the subagents.

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