[erlang-questions] SNMP get-bulk

[Serge Aleynikov]

I realized that an SNMP sub-agent can accomplish this goal.  Are there 
any examples of how to write a sub-agent?

Serge Aleynikov wrote:
> I would like to use Erlang's SNMP agent for monitoring external OS 
> processes written in C.  For this purpose all get/set requests coming 
> from an SNMP manager will be marshaled to the C process using Erlang 
> external term serialization and ei on the C side (where the C processes 
> would be either ports supervised by an Erlang node running the SNMP 
> agent, or connected to Erlang via a socket).  In order to optimize the 
> number of IPC turnarounds between the the SNMP agent and a C process, 
> I'd like to ensure that SNMP v2c GET-BULK requests are relayed to a C 
> process as a whole (i.e. all N OIDs requested to get are forwarded to 
> the C process as one transaction from the SNMP agent rather than N 
> individual transactions).
> 
> Is this doable?
> 
> Serge
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