Translating pysnmp oids to human readable strings

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On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 11:37 AM, SpamMePlease PleasePlease
<spankthespam at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 9:03 AM, Shantanu Joshi <weemadarthur at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> SpamMePlease PleasePlease <spankthespam at googlemail.com> writes:
>>
>>> On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 6:56 AM, Shantanu Joshi <weemadarthur at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> You need to parse the MIB file to get the human-readable names
>>>> corresponding to the OIDs. The pysnmp library already provides this
>>>> functionality. I haven't used this feature myself (I mainly use pysnmp
>>>> to automate SNMP walk requests, like the one in your code), but the
>>>> documentation at found the below example at
>>>> http://pysnmp.sourceforge.net/docs/4.1.x/index.html#MIB-SERVICES.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>>> from pysnmp.smi import builder, view
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> mibBuilder = builder.MibBuilder().loadModules('SNMPv2-MIB')
>>>>>>> mibViewController = view.MibViewController(mibBuilder)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> oid,label,suffix = mibViewController.getNodeName((1,3,6,1,2,'mib-2',1,'sysDescr'))
>>>>>>> print oid
>>>> (1, 3, 6, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1)
>>>>>>> print label
>>>> ('iso', 'org', 'dod', 'internet', 'mgmt', 'mib-2', 'system', 'sysDescr')
>>>>>>> print suffix
>>>> ()
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>>>>
>>>
>>> Yes, I have seen that, but I cant get it working as expected (or it
>>> doesent to what expected at all). I cant make it return values like:
>>> jnxBgpM2PeerIdentifier.0.ipv4.38.101.161.119.1.38.101.161.118 (the one
>>> of many I got from snmpwalk) but instead I am getting bunch of words
>>> like iso, internet, mgmt, which is no way close to desired effect.
>>> Still no luck - anybody with a clue?
>>
>>
>> Every node in a MIB file is rooted at iso.org.dod.internet.
>> jnxBgpM2PeerIdentifier has OID .1.3.6.1.4.1.2636.5.1.1.2.1.1.1.1
>> (if I've got the right MIB, I searched for jnxBgpM2PeerIdentifier on
>> Google and got the BGP4-V2-MIB-JUNIPER MIB file). The .1.3.6.1.4.1
>> corresponds to iso.org.dod.internet.private.enterprises, so you can
>> safely skip that part. The next value 2636, is uniquely assigned to
>> Juniper, and the rest is up to whatever scheme Juniper uses to prepare
>> mibs.
>>
>> The pysnmp library doesn't know anything about BGP4-V2-MIB-JUNIPER MIB,
>> since it is not one of the standard MIBS, so it will parse everything up
>> to what is defined in the standard mibs and return the rest in numeric
>> form. There was a paragraph on the page I linked which described how to
>> prepare MIB files for consumption by pysnmp. Did you try that?
>>
>>
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>
> Thats a good one, sir! I managed to create jnx-bgpmib2.py out from
> /usr/share/snmp/mibs/jnx-bgpmib2.txt that contains the mibs snmpwalk
> found for me. Now, in what way can I 'feed' the pysnmp with this new
> file and how to ask it kindly to convert these number strings into
> nice readable strings?
>
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I actually tried to load the new file with following code:

print builder.MibBuilder().getMibPath()
mibBuilder = builder.MibBuilder().loadModules('jnx-bgpmib2')

but I am experiencing the error:

rivendell # python snmp.py
('/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/pysnmp/v4/smi/mibs/instances',
'/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/pysnmp/v4/smi/mibs')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "snmp.py", line 7, in ?
    mibBuilder = builder.MibBuilder().loadModules('jnx-bgpmib2')
  File "//usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/pysnmp/v4/smi/builder.py",
line 82, in loadModules
    raise error.SmiError(
pysnmp.smi.error.SmiError: MIB module
"/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/pysnmp/v4/smi/mibs/instances/jnx-bgpmib2.py"
load error: MIB file ".py" not found in search path
rivendell# ls -lA
/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/pysnmp/v4/smi/mibs/instances/jnx-bgpmib2.py
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2687 Mar  6 06:50
/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/pysnmp/v4/smi/mibs/instances/jnx-bgpmib2.py

Any clue what about is done wrong?

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