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Resources to build SNMP support for my device?

Can any one recommend resources for adding SNMP support for my device? my understanding the steps I need to do are as follow:

  • Create a MIB file that define what values your MIB will support
  • Use code generator to convert it to C module
  • Use generated code to fetch real values
  • Convert the module to an agentx sub agent, so you can integrate your MIB a separate process that could work with any snmp agent that support agentx protocol.

Are my assumption correct, any suggestions or corrections, I am specially looking for resources that help me, books, courses, online, etc...

Thanks

Solution

  • Your questions would be answered differently depending on which toolkit you go with. However, if you run with the common Net-SNMP one (free as in beer) then you should probably start with the tutorials on that site that walks you through much of what you're asking.

    http://www.net-snmp.org/wiki/index.php/Tutorials

    However, it doesn't discuss how to write a MIB. For that the best book on the subject is "Understanding SNMP MIBs".