Subject: Fwd: Antwort: Re: How to detect when to report noSuchInstance error?

From: Randy Presuhn <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 11:55:38 -0800 (PST)

Hi -

Forwarding a posting from Frank.  I've added his newest address
to the agentx "posters" list.

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> Hi,
> 
> that=B4s how I actually implemented it ;-) The only draw back
> with this solution is the overhead for an additional subagent
> that implements a couple of empty tables. But at least the
> customers are responsible to decide whether they need
> this degree of standard conformance or not (i.e., they may
> run the additional subagent or not).
> 
> Best regards,
> Frank
> 
> 
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> Hi -
> 
> This morning, it occurred to me that there IS a way to get the
> noSuchInstance to happen in a pure AgentX environment.  Just
> have a "fallback" subagent claim the table's entire subtree,
> and always respond to get requests with noSuchInstance.
> 
> The only get requests dispatched to this subagent would be
> the ones for which no other subagent has registered the
> row in question.  Viva le (la?) kludge!
> 
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>  Randy Presuhn           [email-masked]
>  Voice: +1 408 546-1006  BMC Software, Inc.  1-3141
>  Fax:   +1 408 965-0359  2141 North First Street
>  http://www.bmc.com/     San Jos?, California 95131  USA
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