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diff --git a/net/p5-SNMP/DESCR b/net/p5-SNMP/DESCR index 44d7e52bf62..8db0048cdc3 100644 --- a/net/p5-SNMP/DESCR +++ b/net/p5-SNMP/DESCR @@ -1,9 +1,15 @@ -This is a Perl5 extension module which provides an interface to the -CMU-SNMPv2 library. +This is the Perl5 'SNMP' extension module. The SNMP module provides a +full featured, tri-lingual SNMP (SNMPv3, SNMPv2c, SNMPv1) API. The +SNMP module also provides an interface to the SMI MIB parse-tree for +run-time access to parsed MIB data. The SNMP module internals rely on +the Net-SNMP toolkit library (previously known as ucd-snmp). -The basic operations offered by SNMP are provided through an object -oriented interface for modularity and ease of use. The primary object is -SNMP::Session which is implemented as a blessed hash reference. The -object supports 'get', 'set', and 'getNext' method calls. All calls are -blocking/synchronous (i.e., they must receive a response or timeout -before control is returned to the caller). +The basic operations of the SNMP protocol are provided by this module +through an object oriented interface for modularity and ease of use. +The primary class is SNMP::Session which encapsulates the persistent +aspects of a connection between the management application and the +managed agent. Internally the class is implemented as a blessed hash +reference. This class supplies 'get', 'getnext', 'set', 'fget', and +'fgetnext' and other method calls. The methods take a variety of input +argument formats and support both synchronous and asynchronous +operation through a polymorphic API. |