My FOSDEM 2014 presentation on python-netsnmpagent

I just held Sunday’s first lightning talk on python-netsnmpagent at FOSDEM 2014. Unfortunately they had camera problems, so no recording, sorry. In case you’re interested in the slides, here you go: Slides from my FOSDEM 2014 presentation on python-netsnmpagent

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net-snmp API and connection error handling

net-snmp has a strange API that does not seem to allow us to detect errors while trying to connect to the master snmpd instance. When playing around with python-netsnmpagent, create a copy of run_simple_agent.sh named test.sh and modify as follows: agentXsocket tcp:localhost:9000 or similar. Do not change the python simple_agent.py line by intent. Running test.sh… Continue reading net-snmp API and connection error handling