Re: [pysnmp-dev] Regarding use of Dispatcher with Multiprocessing

[Ilya E. <il...@gl...>]

Hi Ani,

At what point you are going to employ threading? Just for SNMP receiving part (what is not easy since a single instance of SNMP engine is not MT-safe) or for some sort of custom processing logic beyond SNMP engine?

-ilya

> On 24 Feb 2015, at 09:44, Ani A <ani...@gm...> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I was running through the examples in pysnmp (for Trap receiver with V3 case)
> and I have a few doubts (maybe trivial! but somehow I am not getting it)
> 
> I want to use pysnmp, with Python's Multiprocessing module, so in
> each Process's callback function, do I run the following ?
> 
>    try:
>        snmpEngine.transportDispatcher.runDispatcher()
>    except:
>        snmpEngine.transportDispatcher.closeDispatcher()
>        raise
> 
> i.e, what should my main-loop wait on? , since I have another Queue as well
> which I need to check.
> 
> Thanks.
> —
> Ani