[Agentx] Benefit of multiple sessions per sub-agent connection

Julian Scheid <julians37@googlemail.com> Thu, 01 July 2010 13:07 UTC

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Subject: [Agentx] Benefit of multiple sessions per sub-agent connection
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Could someone give a practical example of when a sub-agent would want
to open more than one session per connection?

I've written a sub-agent implementation whose code and API would be
simpler if it would limit users to a single session per connection,
and I am wondering what benefits it would deprive them of by doing so.
As you might guess, I'm hard pressed to come up with use cases myself
-- I must be missing something.

I'm not exactly an SNMP expert, my apologies if this is a silly question.

Thanks in advance.