SNMP Library for Ruby

Summary

This library implements SNMP (the Simple Network Management Protocol). It is implemented in pure Ruby, so there are no dependencies on external libraries like net-snmp. You can run this library anywhere that Ruby can run.

This release supports the following:

• The GetRequest, GetNextRequest, GetBulkRequest, SetRequest, Response SNMPv1_Trap, SNMPv2_Trap, and Inform PDUs
• All of the ASN.1 data types defined by SNMPv1 and SNMPv2c
• Sending informs and v1 and v2 traps
• Trap handling for informs and v1 and v2 traps
• Symbolic OID values (ie. "ifTable" instead of "1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2") as parameters to the SNMP::Manager API
• Includes symbol data files for all current IETF MIBs
• Compatible with Ruby 1.9 and higher

See the SNMP::Manager, SNMP::TrapListener, and SNMP::MIB classes and the examples below for more details.

Installation

You can use RubyGems to install the latest version of the SNMP library.

gem install snmp

Examples

Get Request

Retrieve a system description.

require 'snmp'

SNMP::Manager.open(:host => 'localhost') do |manager|
  response = manager.get(["sysDescr.0", "sysName.0"])
  response.each_varbind do |vb|
    puts "#{vb.name.to_s}  #{vb.value.to_s}  #{vb.value.asn1_type}"
  end
end

Set Request

Create a varbind for setting the system name.

require 'snmp'
include SNMP

manager = Manager.new(:host => 'localhost')
varbind = VarBind.new("1.3.6.1.2.1.1.5.0", OctetString.new("My System Name"))
manager.set(varbind)
manager.close

Table Walk

Walk the ifTable.

require 'snmp'

ifTable_columns = ["ifIndex", "ifDescr", "ifInOctets", "ifOutOctets"]
SNMP::Manager.open(:host => 'localhost') do |manager|
  manager.walk(ifTable_columns) do |row|
    row.each { |vb| print "\t#{vb.value}" }
    puts
  end
end

Get-Next Request

A more difficult way to walk the ifTable.

require 'snmp'
include SNMP

Manager.open(:host => 'localhost') do |manager|
  ifTable = ObjectId.new("1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2")
  next_oid = ifTable
  while next_oid.subtree_of?(ifTable)
    response = manager.get_next(next_oid)
    varbind = response.varbind_list.first
    next_oid = varbind.name
    puts varbind.to_s
  end
end

Get-Bulk Request

Get interface description and admin status for 10 rows of the ifTable.

require 'snmp'
include SNMP

ifDescr_OID = ObjectId.new("1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.2")
  ifAdminStatus_OID = ObjectId.new("1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.7")
  MAX_ROWS = 10
  Manager.open(:host => 'localhost') do |manager|
  response = manager.get_bulk(0, MAX_ROWS, [ifDescr_OID, ifAdminStatus_OID])
  list = response.varbind_list
  until list.empty?
    ifDescr = list.shift
    ifAdminStatus = list.shift
    puts "#{ifDescr.value}    #{ifAdminStatus.value}"
  end
end

Trap Handling

Log traps to STDOUT.

require 'snmp'
require 'logger'

log = Logger.new(STDOUT)
m = SNMP::TrapListener.new do |manager|
  manager.on_trap_default do |trap|
    log.info trap.inspect
  end
end
m.join

License

This SNMP Library is released under the terms of the MIT License.