[Nut-upsdev] apcsmart and ambient data

[Arnaud Quette]

2008/11/25 Charles Lepple <clepple at gmail.com>:
> On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 4:01 AM, Arnaud Quette <aquette.dev at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2008/10/18 Charles Lepple <clepple at gmail.com>:
>>> Arnaud,
>>
>> Hi Charles
>>
>> thanks for pinging (still overbusy with far too many urgent subjects...)
>>
>>> have you had a chance to look at this patch?
>>>
>>> I am not familiar with the SNMP MIBs for UPSes, but it seems that we
>>> could avoid this problem by executing a getNext on the OID *without*
>>> the index at the end. Feel free to poke holes in this theory.
>>
>> well, the .0 suffix is still problematic. Have a look there:
>> http://www.lyberty.com/encyc/articles/snmp.html
>> §How can InterMapper query a particular MIB variable?
>>
>> using a get next isn't an option, or it could be if we only add a .0
>> suffix (or check that the next OID == OID ".0").
>> otherwise, we'll end up with something weird!
>> can you please take care of such a patch Charles?
>
> I committed Steffen's patch, but since I don't have any SNMP equipment
> to test against,

don't you have an MGE evolution (with snmp card?)
otherwise, I'll check with our new sponsor (between MGE and Powerware there) ;-)
but that will have to wait a bit :-(

> I would prefer not to try and blindly code up
> something that compares to make sure that the getNext returns the same
> base OID. (Maybe if I have time to get the NUT SNMP Agent code
> running... *head starts spinning*)

an interesting challenge ;-)
I would be happy to see it revived!

Arnaud