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SNMP(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation SNMP(3) NAME SNMP - The Perl5 'SNMP' Extension Module for the Net-SNMP SNMP package. SYNOPSIS use SNMP; ... $sess = new SNMP::Session(DestHost => localhost, Community => public); $val = $sess->get('sysDescr.0'); ... $vars = new SNMP::VarList([sysDescr,0], [sysContact,0], [sysLocation,0]); @vals = $sess->get($vars); ... $vb = new SNMP::Varbind(); do { $val = $sess->getnext($vb); print "@{$vb}\n"; } until ($sess->{ErrorNum}); ... $SNMP::save_descriptions = 1; SNMP::initMib(); # assuming mib is not already loaded print "$SNMP::MIB{sysDescr}{description}\n"; DESCRIPTION Note: The perl SNMP 5.0 module which comes with net-snmp 5.0 and higher is different than previous versions in a number of ways. Most importantly, it behaves like a proper net-snmp application and calls init_snmp properly, which means it will read configuration files and use those defaults where appropriate automatically parse MIB files, etc. This will likely affect your perl applications if you have, for instance, default values set up in your snmp.conf file (as the perl module will now make use of those de- faults). The documentation, however, has sadly not been updated yet (aside from this note), nor is the read_config default usage implementation fully complete. 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. In- ternally the class is implemented as a blessed hash reference. This class supplies 'get', 'getnext', 'set', 'fget', and 'fgetnext' method calls. The methods take a variety of input argument formats and support both synchro- nous and asynchronous operation through a polymorphic API (i.e., method be- haviour varies dependent on args passed - see below). SNMP::Session $sess = new SNMP::Session(DestHost => 'host', ...) The following arguments may be passed to new as a hash. Basic Options DestHost Hostname or IP address of the SNMP agent you want to talk to. Speci- fied in Net-SNMP formatted agent addresses. These addresses typically look like one of the following: localhost tcp:localhost tls:localhost tls:localhost:9876 udp6:[::1]:9876 unix:/some/path/to/file/socket Defaults to 'localhost'. Version SNMP version to use. The default is taken from library configuration - probably 3 [1, 2 (same as 2c), 2c, 3]. Timeout The number of micro-seconds to wait before resending a request. The default is '1000000' Retries The number of times to retry a request. The default is '5' RetryNoSuch If enabled NOSUCH errors in 'get' pdus will be repaired, removing the varbind in error, and resent - undef will be returned for all NOSUCH varbinds, when set to '0' this feature is disabled and the entire get request will fail on any NOSUCH error (applies to v1 only) The default is '0'. SNMPv3/TLS Options OurIdentity Our X.509 identity to use, which should either be a fingerprint or the filename that holds the certificate. TheirIdentity The remote server's identity to connect to, specified as either a fin- gerprint or a file name. Either this must be specified, or the host- name below along with a trust anchor. TheirHostname The remote server's hostname that is expected. If their certificate was signed by a CA then their hostname presented in the certificate must match this value or the connection fails to be established (to avoid man-in-the-middle attacks). TrustCert A trusted certificate to use as trust anchor (like a CA certificate) for verifying a remote server's certificate. If a CA certificate is used to validate a certificate then the TheirHostname parameter must also be specified to ensure their presented hostname in the certificate matches. SNMPv3/USM Options SecName The SNMPv3 security name to use (most for SNMPv3 with USM). The default is 'initial'. SecLevel The SNMPv3 security level to use [noAuthNoPriv, authNoPriv, authPriv] (v3) The default is 'noAuthNoPriv'. SecEngineId The SNMPv3 security engineID to use (if the snmpv3 security model needs it; for example USM). The format is as a string without the leading '0x'. So if snmptrapd.conf has "-e 0x8000000001020304", use Se- cEngineId => '8000000001020304'. The default is <none>, security engineID and it will be probed if not supplied (v3) ContextEngineId The SNMPv3 context engineID to use. The default is the <none> and will be set either to the SecEngineId value if set or discovered or will be discovered in other ways if using TLS (RFC5343 based discovery). Context The SNMPv3 context name to use. The default is '' (an empty string) AuthProto The SNMPv3/USM authentication protocol to use [MD5, SHA]. The default is 'MD5'. AuthPass The SNMPv3/USM authentication passphrase to use. default <none>, authentication passphrase PrivProto The SNMPv3/USM privacy protocol to use [DES, AES]. The default is 'DES'. PrivPass The SNMPv3/USM privacy passphrase to use. default <none>, privacy passphrase (v3) AuthMasterKey PrivMasterKey AuthLocalizedKey PrivLocalizedKey Directly specified SNMPv3 USM user keys (used if you want to specify the keys instead of deriving them from a password as above). SNMPv1 and SNMPv2c Options Community For SNMPv1 and SNMPv2c, the clear-text community name to use. The default is 'public'. Other Configuration Options VarFormats default 'undef', used by 'fget[next]', holds an hash reference of out- put value formatters, (e.g., {<obj> => <sub-ref>, ... }, <obj> must match the <obj> and format used in the get operation. A special <obj>, '*', may be used to apply all <obj>s, the supplied sub is called to translate the value to a new format. The sub is called passing the Varbind as the arg TypeFormats default 'undef', used by 'fget[next]', holds an hash reference of out- put value formatters, (e.g., {<type> => <sub-ref>, ... }, the supplied sub is called to translate the value to a new format, unless a VarFor- mat mathces first (e.g., $sess->{TypeFormats}{INTEGER} = \&mapEnum(); although this can be done more efficiently by enabling $SNMP::use_enums or session creation param 'UseEnums') UseLongNames defaults to the value of SNMP::use_long_names at time of session cre- ation. set to non-zero to have <tags> for 'getnext' methods generated preferring longer Mib name convention (e.g., system.sysDescr vs just sysDescr) UseSprintValue defaults to the value of SNMP::use_sprint_value at time of session cre- ation. set to non-zero to have return values for 'get' and 'getnext' methods formatted with the libraries snprint_value function. This will result in certain data types being returned in non-canonical format Note: values returned with this option set may not be appropriate for 'set' operations (see discussion of value formats in <vars> description section) UseEnums defaults to the value of SNMP::use_enums at time of session creation. set to non-zero to have integer return values converted to enumeration identifiers if possible, these values will also be acceptable when sup- plied to 'set' operations UseNumeric defaults to the value of SNMP::use_numeric at time of session creation. set to non-zero to have <tags> for get methods returned as numeric OID's rather than descriptions. UseLongNames will be set so that the full OID is returned to the caller. BestGuess defaults to the value of SNMP::best_guess at time of session creation. this setting controls how <tags> are parsed. setting to 0 causes a regular lookup. setting to 1 causes a regular expression match (de- fined as -Ib in snmpcmd) and setting to 2 causes a random access lookup (defined as -IR in snmpcmd). NonIncreasing defaults to the value of SNMP::non_increasing at time of session cre- ation. this setting controls if a non-increasing OID during bulkwalk will causes an error. setting to 0 causes the default behaviour (which may, in very badly performing agents, result in a never-ending loop). setting to 1 causes an error (OID not increasing) when this error oc- cur. ErrorStr read-only, holds the error message assoc. w/ last request ErrorNum read-only, holds the snmp_err or staus of last request ErrorInd read-only, holds the snmp_err_index when appropriate Private variables: DestAddr internal field used to hold the translated DestHost field SessPtr internal field used to cache a created session structure RemotePort Obsolete. Please use the DestHost specifier to indicate the hostname and port combination instead of this paramet. SNMP::Session methods $sess->update(<fields>) Updates the SNMP::Session object with the values fields passed in as a hash list (similar to new(<fields>)) (WARNING! not fully implemented) $sess->get(<vars> [,<callback>]) do SNMP GET, multiple <vars> formats accepted. for syncronous opera- tion <vars> will be updated with value(s) and type(s) and will also re- turn retrieved value(s). If <callback> supplied method will operate asynchronously $sess->fget(<vars> [,<callback>]) do SNMP GET like 'get' and format the values according the handlers specified in $sess->{VarFormats} and $sess->{TypeFormats} $sess->getnext(<vars> [,<callback>]) do SNMP GETNEXT, multiple <vars> formats accepted, returns retrieved value(s), <vars> passed as arguments are updated to indicate next lexi- cographical <obj>,<iid>,<val>, and <type> Note: simple string <vars>,(e.g., 'sysDescr.0') form is not updated. If <callback> supplied method will operate asynchronously $sess->fgetnext(<vars> [,<callback>]) do SNMP GETNEXT like getnext and format the values according the han- dlers specified in $sess->{VarFormats} and $sess->{TypeFormats} $sess->set(<vars> [,<callback>]) do SNMP SET, multiple <vars> formats accepted. the value field in all <vars> formats must be in a canonical format (i.e., well known format) to ensure unambiguous translation to SNMP MIB data value (see discus- sion of canonical value format <vars> description section), returns snmp_errno. If <callback> supplied method will operate asynchronously $sess->getbulk(<non-repeaters>, <max-repeaters>, <vars>) do an SNMP GETBULK, from the list of Varbinds, the single next lexico instance is fetched for the first n Varbinds as defined by <non-re- peaters>. For remaining Varbinds, the m lexico instances are retrieved each of the remaining Varbinds, where m is <max-repeaters>. $sess->bulkwalk(<non-repeaters>, <max-repeaters>, <vars> [,<callback>]) Do a "bulkwalk" of the list of Varbinds. This is done by sending a GETBULK request (see getbulk() above) for the Varbinds. For each re- quested variable, the response is examined to see if the next lexico instance has left the requested sub-tree. Any further instances re- turned for this variable are ignored, and the walk for that sub-tree is considered complete. If any sub-trees were not completed when the end of the responses is reached, another request is composed, consisting of the remaining vari- ables. This process is repeated until all sub-trees have been com- pleted, or too many packets have been exchanged (to avoid loops). The bulkwalk() method returns an array containing an array of Varbinds, one for each requested variable, in the order of the variable requests. Upon error, bulkwalk() returns undef and sets $sess->ErrorStr and $sess->ErrorNum. If a callback is supplied, bulkwalk() returns the SNMP request id, and returns immediately. The callback will be called with the supplied argument list and the returned variables list. Note: Because the client must "discover" that the tree is complete by comparing the returned variables with those that were requested, there is a potential "gotcha" when using the max-repeaters value. Consider the following code to print a list of interfaces and byte counts: $numInts = $sess->get('ifNumber.0'); ($desc, $in, $out) = $sess->bulkwalk(0, $numInts, [['ifDescr'], ['ifInOctets'], ['ifOutOctets']]); for $i (0..($numInts - 1)) { printf "Interface %4s: %s inOctets, %s outOctets\n", $$desc[$i]->val, $$in[$i]->val, $$out[$i]->val; } This code will produce *two* requests to the agent -- the first to get the interface values, and the second to discover that all the informa- tion was in the first packet. To get around this, use '$numInts + 1' for the max_repeaters value. This asks the agent to include one addi- tional (unrelated) variable that signals the end of the sub-tree, al- lowing bulkwalk() to determine that the request is complete. $results = $sess->gettable(<TABLE OID>, <OPTIONS>) This will retrieve an entire table of data and return a hash reference to that data. The returned hash reference will have indexes of the OID suffixes for the index data as the key. The value for each entry will be another hash containing the data for a given row. The keys to that hash will be the column names, and the values will be the data. Example: #!/usr/bin/perl use SNMP; use Data::Dumper; my $s = new SNMP::Session(DestHost => 'localhost'); print Dumper($s->gettable('ifTable')); On my machine produces: $VAR1 = { '6' => { 'ifMtu' => '1500', 'ifPhysAddress' => 'PV', # ... 'ifInUnknownProtos' => '0' }, '4' => { 'ifMtu' => '1480', 'ifPhysAddress' => '', # ... 'ifInUnknownProtos' => '0' }, # ... }; By default, it will try to do as optimized retrieval as possible. It'll request multiple columns at once, and use GETBULK if possible. A few options may be specified by passing in an OPTIONS hash containing various parameters: noindexes => 1 Instructs the code not to parse the indexes and place the results in the second hash. If you don't need the index data, this will be faster. columns => [ colname1, ... ] This specifies which columns to collect. By default, it will try to collect all the columns defined in the MIB table. repeat => COUNT Specifies a GETBULK repeat COUNT. IE, it will request this many varbinds back per column when using the GETBULK operation. Short- ening this will mean smaller packets which may help going through some systems. By default, this value is calculated and attempts to guess at what will fit all the results into 1000 bytes. This cal- culation is fairly safe, hopefully, but you can either raise or lower the number using this option if desired. In lossy networks, you want to make sure that the packets don't get fragmented and lowering this value is one way to help that. nogetbulk => 1 Force the use of GETNEXT rather than GETBULK. (always true for SN- MPv1, as it doesn't have GETBULK anyway). Some agents are great implementers of GETBULK and this allows you to force the use of GETNEXT operations instead. callback => \&subroutine callback => [\&subroutine, optarg1, optarg2, ...] If a callback is specified, gettable will return quickly without returning results. When the results are finally retrieved the callback subroutine will be called (see the other sections defining callback behaviour and how to make use of SNMP::MainLoop which is required for this to work). An additional argument of the normal hash result will be added to the callback subroutine arguments. Note 1: internally, the gettable function uses it's own callbacks which are passed to getnext/getbulk as appropriate. Note 2: callback support is only available in the SNMP module ver- sion 5.04 and above. To test for this in code intending to support both versions prior to 5.04 and 5.04 and up, the following should work: if ($response = $sess->gettable('ifTable', callback => \&my_sub)) { # got a response, gettable doesn't support callback my_sub($response); $no_mainloop = 1; } Deciding on whether to use SNMP::MainLoop is left as an exercise to the reader since it depends on whether your code uses other call- backs as well. SNMP::TrapSession $sess = new SNMP::Session(DestHost => 'host', ...) supports all applicable fields from SNMP::Session (see above) SNMP::TrapSession methods $sess->trap(enterprise, agent, generic, specific, uptime, <vars>) $sess->trap(enterprise=>'.1.3.6.1.4.1.2021', # or 'ucdavis' [default] agent => '127.0.0.1', # or 'localhost',[dflt 1st intf on host] generic => specific, # can be omitted if 'specific' supplied specific => 5, # can be omitted if 'generic' supplied uptime => 1234, # dflt to localhost uptime (0 on win32) [[ifIndex, 1, 1],[sysLocation, 0, "here"]]); # optional vars # always last trap(oid, uptime, <vars>) - v2 format $sess->trap(oid => 'snmpRisingAlarm', uptime => 1234, [[ifIndex, 1, 1],[sysLocation, 0, "here"]]); # optional vars # always last Acceptable variable formats: <vars> may be one of the following forms: SNMP::VarList represents an array of MIB objects to get or set, implemented as a blessed reference to an array of SNMP::Varbinds, (e.g., [<varbind1>, <varbind2>, ...]) SNMP::Varbind represents a single MIB object to get or set, implemented as a blessed reference to a 4 element array; [<obj>, <iid>, <val>, <type>]. <obj> one of the following forms: 1) leaf identifier (e.g., 'sysDescr') assumed to be unique for practical purposes 2) fully qualified identifier (e.g., '.iso.org.dod.inter- net.mgmt.mib-2.system.sysDescr') 3) fully qualified, dotted-decimal, numeric OID (e.g., '.1.3.6.1.2.1.1.1') <iid> the dotted-decimal, instance identifier. for scalar MIB objects use '0' <val> the SNMP data value retrieved from or being set to the agents MIB. for (f)get(next) operations <val> may have a variety of formats as determined by session and package settings. However for set opera- tions the <val> format must be canonical to ensure unambiguous translation. The canonical forms are as follows: OBJECTID dotted-decimal (e.g., .1.3.6.1.2.1.1.1) OCTETSTR perl scalar containing octets INTEGER decimal signed integer (or enum) NETADDR dotted-decimal IPADDR dotted-decimal COUNTER decimal unsigned integer COUNTER64 decimal unsigned integer GAUGE decimal unsigned integer UINTEGER decimal unsigned integer TICKS decimal unsigned integer OPAQUE perl scalar containing octets NULLperl scalar containing nothing <type> SNMP data type (see list above), this field is populated by 'get' and 'getnext' operations. In some cases the programmer needs to populate this field when passing to a 'set' operation. this field need not be supplied when the attribute indicated by <tag> is al- ready described by loaded Mib modules. for 'set's, if a numeric OID is used and the object is not currently in the loaded Mib, the <type> field must be supplied simple string light weight form of <var> used to 'set' or 'get' a single attribute without constructing an SNMP::Varbind. stored in a perl scalar, has the form '<tag>.<iid>', (e.g., 'sysDescr.0'). for 'set' operations the value is passed as a second arg. Note: This argument form is not up- dated in get[next] operations as are the other forms. Acceptable callback formats <callback> may be one of the following forms: without arguments \&subname sub { ... } or with arguments [ \&subname, $arg1, ... ] [ sub { ... }, $arg1, ... ] [ "method", $obj, $arg1, ... ] callback will be called when response is received or timeout occurs. the last argument passed to callback will be a SNMP::VarList reference. In case of timeout the last argument will be undef. &SNMP::MainLoop([<timeout>, [<callback>]]) to be used with async SNMP::Session calls. MainLoop must be called af- ter initial async calls so return packets from the agent will be processed. If no args supplied this function enters an infinite loop so program must be exited in a callback or externally interrupted. If <timeout(sic) &SNMP::finish() This function, when called from an SNMP::MainLoop() callback function, will cause the current SNMP::MainLoop() to return after the callback is completed. finish() can be used to terminate an otherwise-infinite MainLoop. A new MainLoop() instance can then be started to handle fur- ther requests. SNMP package variables and functions $SNMP::VERSION the current version specifier (e.g., 3.1.0) $SNMP::auto_init_mib default '1', set to 0 to disable automatic reading of the MIB upon ses- sion creation. set to non-zero to call initMib at session creation which will result in MIB loading according to Net-SNMP env. variables (see man mib_api) $SNMP::verbose default '0', controls warning/info output of SNMP module, 0 => no out- put, 1 => enables warning/info output from SNMP module itself (is also controlled by SNMP::debugging - see below) $SNMP::use_long_names default '0', set to non-zero to enable the use of longer Mib identi- fiers. see translateObj. will also influence the formatting of <tag> in varbinds returned from 'getnext' operations. Can be set on a per ses- sion basis (UseLongNames) $SNMP::use_sprint_value default '0', set to non-zero to enable formatting of response values using the snmp libraries snprint_value function. can also be set on a per session basis (see UseSprintValue) Note: returned values may not be suitable for 'set' operations $SNMP::use_enums default '0',set non-zero to return values as enums and allow sets using enums where appropriate. integer data will still be accepted for set operations. can also be set on a per session basis (see UseEnums) $SNMP::use_numeric default to '0',set to non-zero to have <tags> for 'get' methods re- turned as numeric OID's rather than descriptions. UseLongNames will be set so that the entire OID will be returned. Set on a per-session ba- sis (see UseNumeric). $SNMP::best_guess default '0'. This setting controls how <tags> are parsed. Setting to 0 causes a regular lookup. Setting to 1 causes a regular expression match (defined as -Ib in snmpcmd) and setting to 2 causes a random ac- cess lookup (defined as -IR in snmpcmd). Can also be set on a per ses- sion basis (see BestGuess) $SNMP::save_descriptions default '0',set non-zero to have mib parser save attribute descrip- tions. must be set prior to mib initialization $SNMP::debugging default '0', controls debugging output level within SNMP module and libsnmp 1. enables 'SNMP::verbose' (see above) 2. level 1 plus snmp_set_do_debugging(1) 3. level 2 plus snmp_set_dump_packet(1) $SNMP::dump_packet default '0', set [non-]zero to independently set snmp_set_dump_packet() SNMP::register_debug_tokens() Allows to register one or more debug tokens, just like the -D option of snmpd. Each debug token enables a group of debug statements. An exam- ple: SNMP::register_debug_tokens("tdomain,netsnmp_unix"); %SNMP::MIB a tied hash to access parsed MIB information. After the MIB has been loaded this hash allows access to to the parsed in MIB meta-data(the structure of the MIB (i.e., schema)). The hash returns blessed references to SNMP::MIB::NODE objects which represent a single MIB attribute. The nodes can be fetched with multiple 'key' formats - the leaf name (e.g.,sysDescr) or fully/partially qualified name (e.g., system.sysDescr) or fully quali- fied numeric OID. The returned node object supports the following fields: objectID dotted decimal fully qualified OID label leaf textual identifier (e.g., 'sysDescr') subID leaf numeric OID component of objectID (e.g., '1') moduleID textual identifier for module (e.g., 'RFC1213-MIB') parent parent node children array reference of children nodes nextNode next lexico node (BUG!does not return in lexico order) typereturns application type (see getType for values) access returns ACCESS (ReadOnly, ReadWrite, WriteOnly, NoAccess, Notify, Cre- ate) status returns STATUS (Mandatory, Optional, Obsolete, Deprecated) syntax returns 'textualConvention' if defined else 'type' textualConvention returns TEXTUAL-CONVENTION TCDescription returns the TEXTUAL-CONVENTION's DESCRIPTION field. units returns UNITS hintreturns HINT enums returns hash ref {tag => num, ...} ranges returns array ref of hash ref [{low => num, high => num}, ...] description returns DESCRIPTION ($SNMP::save_descriptions must be set prior to MIB initialization/parsing) reference returns the REFERENCE clause indexes returns the objects in the INDEX clause implied returns true if the last object in the INDEX is IMPLIED MIB Functions &SNMP::setMib(<file>) allows dynamic parsing of the mib and explicit specification of mib file independent of environment variables. called with no args acts like initMib, loading MIBs indicated by environment variables (see Net-SNMP mib_api docs). passing non-zero second arg forces previous mib to be freed and replaced (Note: second arg not working since freeing previous Mib is more involved than before). &SNMP::initMib() calls library init_mib function if Mib not already loaded - does noth- ing if Mib already loaded. will parse directories and load modules ac- cording to environment variables described in Net-SNMP documentations. (see man mib_api, MIBDIRS, MIBS, MIBFILE(S), etc.) &SNMP::addMibDirs(<dir>,...) calls library add_mibdir for each directory supplied. will cause direc- tory(s) to be added to internal list and made available for searching in subsequent loadModules calls &SNMP::addMibFiles(<file>,...) calls library read_mib function. The file(s) supplied will be read and all Mib module definitions contained therein will be added to internal mib tree structure &SNMP::loadModules(<mod>,...) calls library read_module function. The module(s) supplied will be searched for in the current mibdirs and and added to internal mib tree structure. Passing special <mod>, 'ALL', will cause all known modules to be loaded. &SNMP::unloadModules(<mod>,...) *Not Implemented* &SNMP::translateObj(<var>[,arg,[arg]]) will convert a text obj tag to an OID and vice-versa. Any iid suffix is retained numerically. Default behaviour when converting a numeric OID to text form is to return leaf identifier only (e.g.,'sysDescr') but when $SNMP::use_long_names is non-zero or a non-zero second arg is supplied it will return a longer textual identifier. An optional third argument of non-zero will cause the module name to be prepended to the text name (e.g. 'SNMPv2-MIB::sysDescr'). When converting a text obj, the $SNMP::best_guess option is used. If no Mib is loaded when called and $SNMP::auto_init_mib is enabled then the Mib will be loaded. Will return 'undef' upon failure. &SNMP::getType(<var>) return SNMP data type for given textual identifier OBJECTID, OCTETSTR, INTEGER, NETADDR, IPADDR, COUNTER GAUGE, TIMETICKS, OPAQUE, or undef &SNMP::mapEnum(<var>) converts integer value to enumertion tag defined in Mib or converts tag to integer depending on input. the function will return the correspond- ing integer value *or* tag for a given MIB attribute and value. The function will sense which direction to perform the conversion. Various arg formats are supported $val = SNMP::mapEnum($varbind); where $varbind is SNMP::Varbind or equiv. note: $varbind will be updated $val = SNMP::mapEnum('ipForwarding', 'forwarding'); $val = SNMP::mapEnum('ipForwarding', 1); Exported SNMP utility functions Note: utility functions do not support async operation yet. &snmp_get() takes args of SNMP::Session::new followed by those of SNMP::Ses- sion::get &snmp_getnext() takes args of SNMP::Session::new followed by those of SNMP::Ses- sion::getnext &snmp_set() takes args of SNMP::Session::new followed by those of SNMP::Ses- sion::set &snmp_trap() takes args of SNMP::TrapSession::new followed by those of SNMP::TrapS- ession::trap Trouble Shooting If problems occur there are number areas to look at to narrow down the pos- sibilities. The first step should be to test the Net-SNMP installation independently from the Perl5 SNMP interface. Try running the apps from the Net-SNMP distribution. Make sure your agent (snmpd) is running and properly configured with read-write access for the community you are using. Ensure that your MIBs are installed and enviroment variables are set appro- priately (see man mib_api) Be sure to remove old net-snmp installations and ensure headers and li- braries from old CMU installations are not being used by mistake. If the problem occurs during compilation/linking check that the snmp li- brary being linked is actually the Net-SNMP library (there have been name conflicts with existing snmp libs). Also check that the header files are correct and up to date. Sometimes compiling the Net-SNMP library with 'position-independent-code' enabled is required (HPUX specifically). If you cannot resolve the problem you can post to comp.lang.perl.modules or net-snmp-users@net-snmp-users@lists.sourceforge.net please give sufficient information to analyze the problem (OS type, ver- sions for OS/Perl/Net-SNMP/compiler, complete error output, etc.) Acknowledgements Many thanks to all those who supplied patches, suggestions and feedback. Joe Marzot (the original author) Wes Hardaker and the net-snmp-coders Dave Perkins Marcel Wiget David Blackburn John Stofell Gary Hayward Claire Harrison Achim Bohnet Doug Kingston Jacques Vidrine Carl Jacobsen Wayne Marquette Scott Schumate Michael Slifcak Srivathsan Srinivasagopalan Bill Fenner Jef Peeraer Daniel Hagerty Karl "Rat" Schilke and Electric Lightwave, Inc. Perl5 Porters Alex Burger Apologies to any/all who's patch/feature/request was not mentioned or in- cluded - most likely it was lost when paying work intruded on my fun. Please try again if you do not see a desired feature. This may actually turn out to be a decent package with such excellent help and the fact that I have more time to work on it than in the past. AUTHOR bugs, comments, questions to net-snmp-users@lists.sourceforge.net Copyright Copyright (c) 1995-2000 G. S. Marzot. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. Copyright (c) 2001-2002 Networks Associates Technology, Inc. All Rights Reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. perl v5.42.3 2025-12-23 SNMP(3)
NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | SNMP::Session | SNMP::TrapSession | Acceptable variable formats: | Acceptable callback formats | SNMP package variables and functions | %SNMP::MIB | MIB Functions | Exported SNMP utility functions | Trouble Shooting | Acknowledgements | AUTHOR | Copyright
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