[fpc-pascal] SNMP and MIBs

Marco van de Voort marcov at stack.nl
Sat Jan 29 13:04:13 CET 2011


In our previous episode, Jeppe Johansen said:
> > Management information base, used between SNMP, but also by e.g. sysctl.
> >
> > Provides a tree of variables that can be walked.
> >
> > I don't see why an FPC object would use this?
> You could combine it with RTTI, and then have a great generic tool that 
> can be used to inspect and control network equipment(and other things)

I understand that querying object is the goal, but I think the static nature
of RTTI makes it a bad match (since you want to be dynamically add values)
 
> I can definitely see why it would be useful, but I'm not sure it could 
> be done at runtime

I would go in the directly of IDispatch. COM object querying.



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