Changing the Retransmission Policy

[This is preliminary documentation and subject to change.]

The Microsoft WinSNMP implementation provides retransmission policy support by storing a time-out value and a retry count for the WinSNMP manager application in a database. The implementation stores values for individual destination entities. The implementation initially supplies default values for these elements, but an application can add or modify values for individual entities.

A call to the SnmpGetTimeout and SnmpGetRetry functions returns the time-out and retry count values for a specific destination entity. To change the time-out value, a WinSNMP manager application must call the SnmpSetTimeout function. To change the retry count value the application must call the SnmpSetRetry function. The updated settings affect new SNMP message requests to the destination entity.