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- From: "Bernd Finkemeyer" <p00122@psilink.com>
- Subject: Re: how to get variables
- Message-ID: <2933213647.0.p00122@psilink.com>
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- Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 03:37:53 GMT
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- >if you want a non-indexed variable, you will have to ask for
- >
- >x.y.z.0
- >
- >when you want x.y.z.
- >
- >Other questions will result in: no such name.
- >
- >if you want an indexed variable, you will have to ask for
- >x.y.z.i
- >when you want index i of x.y.z
- >
- >why is there this extra-zero in the question (by get-request) for
- >a non-indexed variable?
-
- In the case of scalar objects, there is no ambiguity between an object
- type and an instance of that object; there is only one object instance
- for each scalar object type. However, for consistency with the
- convention for tabular objects, and to distinguish between an object
- type and an object instance, SNMP dictates that the instance
- identifier of a nontabular scalar object consists of its object identifier
- concatenated with 0.
-
- This convention is retained in SMP and SNMPv2.
-
- Bill Stallings
- Internet: 72500.3562@compuserve.com
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