Re: problem using snmptrap with a DateAndTime object

[Magnus F. <ma...@ly...>]

On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 14:54 -0400, Zack Little wrote:
> I have defined a custom MIB for queries and that is working fine.  I
> now want to have my device send some traps that I have created in my
> custom MIB file.  Right now what I'm doing is having an application
> that runs on my device fork off a child process to handle the sending
> of the trap.  The child calls snmptrap via an execvp call and then the
> child exits.
>  
> This is working great for standard data types (integer, ip address,
> string, etc.).  I can't seem to get this to work with my DateAndTime
> object.  I used the function date_n_time() to transform my timestamp
> into a binary string and passed it as an arg with "s" for the type.  I
> added a trace message and found that snmptrap is being called with my
> binary string.  However, snmptrap must be blowing up somewhere before
> the trap is sent.
>  
> Before I spend any time debugging snmptrap I wanted to make sure I
> wasn't taking the completely wrong approach to this.  

As you descrie it it sounds like you are having trouble with
\0-terminated strings and/or shell quoting.

I'd say you are taking the wrong approach, the right approach would be
to use something like the netsnmp_send_traps call.

/MF