MIB tweaks

Waive MIB lookup

Perform SNMP GETNEXT operation with the following options:

  • with SNMPv2c, community ‘public’
  • over IPv4/UDP
  • to an Agent at demo.snmplabs.com:161
  • for an OID in string form
  • do not resolve response OIDs and values into human-freidly form

False lookupMib keyword arguments could make pysnmp waiving OIDs and values resolution in response variable-bindings, into human friendly form.

Functionally similar to:

$ snmpwalk -v2c -c public -ObentU demo.snmplabs.com 1.3.6.1.2.1
from pysnmp.hlapi import *

for errorIndication, \
    errorStatus, errorIndex, \
    varBinds in nextCmd(SnmpEngine(),
                        CommunityData('public'),
                        UdpTransportTarget(('demo.snmplabs.com', 161)),
                        ContextData(),
                        ObjectType(ObjectIdentity('1.3.6.1.2.1.1')),
                        lookupMib=False):

    if errorIndication:
        print(errorIndication)
        break
    elif errorStatus:
        print('%s at %s' % (
                errorStatus.prettyPrint(),
                errorIndex and varBinds[int(errorIndex)-1][0] or '?'
            )
        )
        break
    else:
        for varBind in varBinds:
            print(' = '.join([ x.prettyPrint() for x in varBind ]))

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Preload PySNMP MIBs

Send a series of SNMP GETNEXT requests using the following options:

  • with SNMPv3 with user ‘usr-md5-des’, MD5 auth and DES privacy protocols
  • over IPv6/UDP
  • to an Agent at [::1]:161
  • for all OIDs starting from 1.3.6
  • preload all Python MIB modules found in search path

Functionally similar to:

$ snmpwalk -v3 -l authPriv -u usr-md5-des -A authkey1 -X privkey1
-m ALL
udp6:[::1]:161
1.3.6
from pysnmp.hlapi import *

for errorIndication, \
    errorStatus, errorIndex, \
    varBinds in nextCmd(SnmpEngine(),
                        UsmUserData('usr-md5-des', 'authkey1', 'privkey1'),
                        Udp6TransportTarget(('::1', 161)),
                        ContextData(),
                        ObjectType(ObjectIdentity('1.3.6').loadMibs())):

    if errorIndication:
        print(errorIndication)
        break
    elif errorStatus:
        print('%s at %s' % (
                errorStatus.prettyPrint(),
                errorIndex and varBinds[int(errorIndex)-1][0] or '?'
            )
        )
        break
    else:
        for varBind in varBinds:
            print(' = '.join([ x.prettyPrint() for x in varBind ]))

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Custom ASN.1 MIB path

Send SNMP GET request using the following options:

  • with SNMPv2c, community ‘public’
  • over IPv4/UDP
  • to an Agent at demo.snmplabs.com:161
  • for IF-MIB::ifInOctets.1 MIB object
  • pass non-default ASN.1 MIB source to MIB compiler

Functionally similar to:

$ snmpget -v2c -c public -M /usr/share/snmp demo.snmplabs.com
IF-MIB::ifInOctets.1
from pysnmp.hlapi import *

errorIndication, errorStatus, errorIndex, varBinds = next(
    getCmd(SnmpEngine(),
           CommunityData('public'),
           UdpTransportTarget(('demo.snmplabs.com', 161)),
           ContextData(),
           ObjectType(ObjectIdentity('IF-MIB', 'ifInOctets', 1).addAsn1MibSource('file:///usr/share/snmp', 'http://mibs.snmplabs.com/asn1/@mib@')))
)

if errorIndication:
    print(errorIndication)
elif errorStatus:
    print('%s at %s' % (
            errorStatus.prettyPrint(),
            errorIndex and varBinds[int(errorIndex)-1][0] or '?'
        )
    )
else:
    for varBind in varBinds:
        print(' = '.join([ x.prettyPrint() for x in varBind ]))

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Custom PySNMP MIBs location

Send a series of SNMP GETBULK requests using the following options:

  • with SNMPv3, user ‘usr-none-none’, no authentication, no privacy
  • over IPv4/UDP
  • to an Agent at demo.snmplabs.com:161
  • for all OIDs within TCP-MIB::tcpConnTable column
  • TCP-MIB Python module will be searched by a user-specified filesystem path (/opt/mib/pysnmp) and in Python package (python_packaged_mibs) which should be in sys.path

Functionally similar to:

$ snmpbulkwalk -v3 -lnoAuthNoPriv -u usr-none-none -Cn0 -Cr50
demo.snmplabs.com TCP-MIB::tcpConnTable
from pysnmp.hlapi import *

for errorIndication, \
    errorStatus, errorIndex, \
    varBinds in bulkCmd(SnmpEngine(),
                        UsmUserData('usr-none-none'),
                        UdpTransportTarget(('demo.snmplabs.com', 161)),
                        ContextData(),
                        0, 50,
                        ObjectType(ObjectIdentity('TCP-MIB', 'tcpConnTable').addMibSource('/opt/mibs/pysnmp').addMibSource('python_packaged_mibs')),
                        lexicographicMode=False):

    if errorIndication:
        print(errorIndication)
        break
    elif errorStatus:
        print('%s at %s' % (
                errorStatus.prettyPrint(),
                errorIndex and varBinds[int(errorIndex)-1][0] or '?'
            )
        )
        break
    else:
        for varBind in varBinds:
            print(' = '.join([ x.prettyPrint() for x in varBind ]))

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See also: library reference.