Re: [poll comment] "SNMP request/reply support"

On 2019-08-19 12:34, Daniel Stenberg via curl-library wrote:
> Another suggestion from the poll.
>
> (SNMP is not currently supported by curl.)
>
> I'm not personally fluent in SNMP so I would need to do this together
> with someone who is and someone who has an existing use case that could
> drive it - so that it becomes a less theoretical and more practical
> exercise. I found that RFC 4088 defines the URL syntax but can we really
> view such SNMP requests and replies as "transfers" ? What kind of data
> does such a transfer return?
>
> Ideas? Thoughts?
>

The first thing to decide with snmp support is: which side of the snmp
protocoll you want to support?
- client side: to gather information via snmp from devices supporting snmp?
- server side: to provide curl data to snmp clients?

I'm actively using snmp to monitor my internet service provider network,
so I'm pretty sure I will never install and use curl instead of
(net-snmp's snmp-get and snmp-walk or other integrated snmp client).

On the other hand, if you daemonize a curl server, and use it for
centralized download, it might be usefull to provide data about current
downloads and performance via snmp. So include a kind of snmp agent into
curld can be an usefull idea.

Buci
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Received on 2019-08-20