Re: What *should* Net-SNMP do with a busted resource?

[Phil S. I. <li...@ak...>]

Peter Martin <pet...@tr...> wrote:
>Having experienced similar failures over the years,(with my own agent=20
>code as well - blush), I would say, the agent should be designed to be=20
>robust in the face of badly behaved or wrongly configured systems. =
After=20
>all, typing 'cat xyz' does not crash the shell if xyz is missing, so=20
>querying a resource that is broken should not crash the agent.
>Having to go round and restart several hundred agents on remote systems =

>because someone queried a broken resource is not time well spent.

Thank you. I absolutely agree; my query was in case there was some =
subtlety that I was missing that would suggest that the current behavior =
is correct.  You have confirmed my position -- always a popular choice =
;-)

Cheers,

...phsiii