How do I control my program?

Hi,

The program below works fine, except the control is all out of whack. I would like to control the program flow from the main method. Hence call the getSNMP() and store the result of fixResponseString() to a global variable.

But I keep on receiving error when I try to accomplish this. The error is snmp4j.java:67: non-static method fixResponseString(java.lang.String) cannot be referenced from a static context. This is probably very common on here, but I need help to separate my program so it is all controlled from the main method.

Cheers,

import org.snmp4j.*;

import org.snmp4j.PDU;

import org.snmp4j.asn1.*;

import org.snmp4j.event.*;

import org.snmp4j.log.*;

import org.snmp4j.mp.*;

import org.snmp4j.security.*;

import org.snmp4j.smi.*;

import org.snmp4j.smi.UdpAddress;

import org.snmp4j.tools.console .*;

import org.snmp4j.transport.*;

import org.snmp4j.util.*;

publicclass snmp4j{

publicstaticvoid main( String [] args )throws Exception{

getSNMP();

}

//Retrieves the SNMP variables based on the string OID and stringAddress

staticvoid getSNMP()throws Exception{

String stringOID ="1.3.6.1.2.1.1.5.0";

String stringAddress ="10.31.9.41/161";

// Target address

Address targetAddress =new UdpAddress (stringAddress);

OID targetOID =new OID(stringOID);

/*

* 1. PDU and Communityaddress

*PDU instance

*/

PDU requestPDU =new PDU();

requestPDU.add(new VariableBinding(targetOID));// sysName

requestPDU.setType(PDU.GET);

// Comunity Target

CommunityTarget target =new CommunityTarget();

target.setCommunity(new OctetString("liepsi73"));

target.setAddress(targetAddress);

target.setTimeout(500);// set timeout to 500 milliseconds -> 2*500ms = 1s total timeout

target.setVersion(SnmpConstants.version1);

/*

* 2. Classes for SNMP message sending (command generation)

* 3. Classes for SNMP message dispatching (command responding)

*/

TransportMapping transport =new DefaultUdpTransportMapping();

Snmp snmp =new Snmp(transport);

transport.listen();

ResponseEvent response = snmp.send(requestPDU, target);

if (response.getResponse() ==null){

System.out.println("Request timed out");

}else{

// dump response PDU

// print the response and call the fixResponseMethod

//SNMPresult = (response.getResponse().toString());

System.out.println(response.getResponse().toString());

fixResponseString(response.getResponse().toString());

}

}

// Manipulated the output of the retrieved snmp message.

staticvoid fixResponseString(String s){

s = s.substring(72);// remove everything before "VBS["

int i = s.indexOf("=");// remove everything before "="

s = s.substring(i+2);// remove "= "

int length = s.length();// get the length

s = s.substring(0, length-2);// remove last two characters

System.out.println(s);

}

}

[5281 byte] By [carlo_bauera] at [2007-11-27 3:43:55]