* shyamk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > A strange client arrived with a stranger set of requests > (at a time when I am cash-starved) . He dropped the following > ideas over phone (perhaps his requirements -or- modus - operandi. > > He said he wanted VB -on- Solaris !
Vmware should be able to do that. > SNMP , Distributed Battery Charging, RS485 something, > status recording , and > strangest of all he did not want a database ! > He simply wanted to record all this in a text file ! That's fine, plain text is still the best data interchange format for many applications. If he doesn't need to run lots of queries on the data, he doesn't need a DB. > I know that SNMP is a "Network Management Protocol" , but can recall > nothing beyond that. SNMP consists of a database (tree), called Management Information Base (MIB), and the protocol that defines 3 operations: get, set and trap (the last one's "signal" -- generated by server when a condition occurs). On the software side, there's an agent that monitors $THING, daemon that provides access to data colected by the agent, and client software. If your client wants to use existing MIBs, that's not too hard. If he wants a custom MIB and agent, you probably don't want his money. Dima
