A new scotty version is available on our ftp server. Nearly all
changes since 1.1.1 have been made on our SNMP code. Below is a
short summary of changes:
o Bug fixes:
- receiving SNMP traps should work now
- SNMP set operations are working now
- BER decoding of negative integer values is fixed
- the SNMP browser script has been finished
- the MIB parser has been improved
o New features:
- interpretation of display hints and enumerations
- faster MIB lookups and reduced memory requirements
- a new command to send SNMP traps
- a new configuration option for extended tcl (untested)
- scotty can run as an extensible SNMP agent
I updated the configure scripts to autoconf-2.1 and made SNMP support
the default. Please let me know if I have introduced bugs in the
configuration process.
The perhaps most important improvement is the ability to run scotty as
a extensible SNMP agent. This makes it possible to write agents as
simple tcl scripts. All you have to do is to define your own private
MIB and to implement it as a scotty script that manipulates tcl
variables which are bound to SNMP instances. I am planning to use this
feature to implement SNMP agents that could act as midlevel managers
that control and monitor simple agents without being `online' with a
management application.
A sample agent implementation is in the agents directory which is just
used to demonstrate how things might work. But please read
agents/README before you start the agent as it might affect the
security of your machine.
Juergen