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Integration Facilities of the HP OpenView NNM Core Platform
The OpenView Windows API
Chapter 6 243
Message
Setup and
Manipulation
OVsnmpCreatePdu Allocates an SNMP Protocol Data
Unit (PDU) data structure. A PDU
contains an SNMP message.
OVsnmpAddNullVarBind,
OVsnmpAddTypedVarBind
Used in conjunction with SNMP Set,
Get, GetNext and SNMPv2 Inform
Requests. Allocates, initializes and
appends an OVsnmpVarBind
structure for the specified SNMP
MIB object to the SNMP Request
PDU.
OVsnmpFixPdu If, in a list of variables, one or more
variables cause a request to fail (for
any reason), OVsnmpFixPdu(3) can
be used to strip the offending
variable(s) from the list. The result
is a list that can be used to retry the
request.
OVsnmpCopyPdu Creates a copy of the specified
OVsnmpPdu data structure and its
contained elements
OVsnmpFreePdu Deallocates a PDU structure, and
recovers associated resources.
Table 6-3 SNMP Communications API Functions
Category Function Name for
Event-Driven X
Applications
Function Name
for Traditional
Applications
Description