Translating pysnmp oids to human readable strings
SpamMePlease PleasePlease
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Fri Mar 6 02:22:54 EST 2009
On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 1:10 AM, birdsong <david.birdsong at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mar 5, 2:30 pm, SpamMePlease PleasePlease
> <spankthes... at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 10:12 PM, birdsong <david.birds... at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Mar 5, 1:05 pm, birdsong <david.birds... at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> On Mar 5, 12:32 pm, SpamMePlease PleasePlease
>>
>> >> <spankthes... at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> >> > Hey list,
>>
>> >> > I was given a task, to reproduce functionality of command specified
>> >> > below by writing proper python functions to reuse in some monitoring
>> >> > script:
>>
>> >> > rivendell# snmpwalk -Os -mALL -v1 -cgabilgathol 10.0.6.66
>> >> > .1.3.6.1.4.1.2636.5.1.1.2
>> >> > jnxBgpM2PeerIdentifier.0.ipv4."".unknown."".0.1.38.101.87.145 =
>> >> > STRING: 66.250.1.253
>> >> > jnxBgpM2PeerIdentifier.0.ipv4.38.101.161.119.1.38.101.161.118 =
>> >> > STRING: 66.28.1.85
>> >> > jnxBgpM2PeerIdentifier.0.ipv4.64.200.59.74.1.64.200.59.73 = STRING: 64.200.68.12
>> >> > jnxBgpM2PeerIdentifier.0.ipv4.72.37.131.250.1.72.37.131.249 = STRING:
>> >> > 64.235.224.240
>> >> > jnxBgpM2PeerState.0.ipv4."".unknown."".0.1.38.101.87.145 = INTEGER:
>> >> > established(6)
>> >> > jnxBgpM2PeerState.0.ipv4.38.101.161.119.1.38.101.161.118 = INTEGER:
>> >> > established(6)
>> >> > jnxBgpM2PeerState.0.ipv4.64.200.59.74.1.64.200.59.73 = INTEGER: established(6)
>> >> > jnxBgpM2PeerState.0.ipv4.72.37.131.250.1.72.37.131.249 = INTEGER: established(6)
>> >> > (more output)
>>
>> >> > I have already found a pysnmp library to fetch the data from the
>> >> > device with a minimal amount of code:
>>
>> >> > from pysnmp.entity.rfc3413.oneliner import cmdgen
>> >> > from pysnmp.smi import *
>> >> > import string
>>
>> >> > cmdGen = cmdgen.CommandGenerator()
>> >> > errorIndication, errorStatus, errorIndex, varBinds =
>> >> > cmdgen.CommandGenerator().nextCmd(cmdgen.CommunityData('AmonMuil',
>> >> > 'gabilgathol', 0),
>> >> > cmdgen.UdpTransportTarget(('fw-1.datacenter.gondor.net', 161)),
>> >> > (1,3,6,1,4,1,2636,5,1,1,2))
>>
>> >> > print errorIndication, errorStatus
>> >> > for i in varBinds:
>> >> > print i
>>
>> >> > The problem is that I have completely stuck on the result I am
>> >> > experiencing being totally human unreadable, like this:
>>
>> >> > rivendell# python snmp.py
>> >> > None 0
>> >> > [(ObjectName('1.3.6.1.4.1.2636.5.1.1.2.1.1.1.1.0.1.0.0.0.0.1.38.101.87.145'),
>> >> > OctetString('B\xfa\x01\xfd'))]
>> >> > [(ObjectName('1.3.6.1.4.1.2636.5.1.1.2.1.1.1.1.0.1.38.101.161.119.1.38.101.161.118'),
>> >> > OctetString('B\x1c\x01U'))]
>> >> > [(ObjectName('1.3.6.1.4.1.2636.5.1.1.2.1.1.1.1.0.1.64.200.59.74.1.64.200.59.73'),
>> >> > OctetString('@\xc8D\x0c'))]
>> >> > [(ObjectName('1.3.6.1.4.1.2636.5.1.1.2.1.1.1.1.0.1.72.37.131.250.1.72.37.131.249'),
>> >> > OctetString('@\xeb\xe0\xf0'))]
>> >> > [(ObjectName('1.3.6.1.4.1.2636.5.1.1.2.1.1.1.2.0.1.0.0.0.0.1.38.101.87.145'),
>> >> > Integer32('6'))]
>> >> > [(ObjectName('1.3.6.1.4.1.2636.5.1.1.2.1.1.1.2.0.1.38.101.161.119.1.38.101.161.118'),
>> >> > Integer32('6'))]
>> >> > [(ObjectName('1.3.6.1.4.1.2636.5.1.1.2.1.1.1.2.0.1.64.200.59.74.1.64.200.59.73'),
>> >> > Integer32('6'))]
>> >> > [(ObjectName('1.3.6.1.4.1.2636.5.1.1.2.1.1.1.2.0.1.72.37.131.250.1.72.37.131.249'),
>> >> > Integer32('6'))]
>> >> > [(ObjectName('1.3.6.1.4.1.2636.5.1.1.2.1.1.1.3.0.1.0.0.0.0.1.38.101.87.145'),
>> >> > Integer32('2'))]
>>
>> >> > Since I cant find any way to translate these numbers to the same thing
>> >> > snmpwalk produce, is there any clue on how to achieve that? Is it
>> >> > possible at all for different devices (this one happend to be Juniper
>> >> > firewall if that does matter). Also, how can I know where does this
>> >> > magic oid ends and where does additional information starts (like ip
>> >> > addresses added to oid 0 they all looks like another oid string
>> >> > numbers) ?
>>
>> >> > Any sample of code, or hint to another lib will be very appreciated!
>>
>> >> > --
>> >> > --------------------
>> >> > Spank The Spam!
>>
>> >> Here's an example of walk that's part of a class I wrote, hopefully
>> >> indentation survives the paste. I borrowed heavily from example code
>> >> on the pysnmp site.
>>
>> >> from pysnmp import asn1, v2c
>> >> from pysnmp import role
>>
>> >> def walk(self, community_string, base_oids):
>>
>> >> if type(base_oids) is str: base_oids = [base_oids]
>> >> # this this does what it says, dont bother asking for oids that
>> >> we'll see in our walk
>> >> base_oids = self.remove_child_oids(base_oids)
>> >> # h_pair is just (host, port)
>> >> client = role.manager(self.h_pair)
>> >> client.timeout = 10
>> >> req = v2c.GETNEXTREQUEST(community=community_string)
>> >> rsp = v2c.GETRESPONSE()
>> >> req['encoded_oids'] = map(asn1.OBJECTID().encode, base_oids)
>>
>> >> oids_values = {}
>> >> while req['encoded_oids']:
>> >> try:
>> >> answer, host_tuple = client.send_and_receive(req.encode())
>> >> except (role.NoResponse, role.NetworkError):
>> >> return oids_values
>>
>> >> rsp.decode(answer)
>>
>> >> parsed_oids_vals = self.parse_response(rsp, base_oids)
>> >> oids_values.update(parsed_oids_vals)
>>
>> >> req['request_id'] += 1
>> >> req['encoded_oids'] = map(asn1.OBJECTID().encode,
>> >> parsed_oids_vals.keys())
>>
>> >> return oids_values
>>
>> > Just realized the parse_response() is needed to makes sense of it:
>>
>> > def parse_response(self, rsp, head_oids):
>> > # list of indices
>> > overshot_oids = []
>>
>> > vals = map(lambda x: x[0](), map(asn1.decode, rsp
>> > ['encoded_vals']))
>> > oids = map(lambda x: asn1.OBJECTID().decode(x)[0], rsp
>> > ['encoded_oids'])
>> > oids_vals = dict(map(None, oids, vals))
>>
>> > for oid in oids_vals:
>> > if not filter(lambda h: asn1.OBJECTID(h).isaprefix(oid),
>> > head_oids):
>> > overshot_oids.append(oid)
>>
>> > map(lambda x: oids_vals.pop(x), overshot_oids)
>>
>> > return oids_vals
>>
>> > I welcome critique btw, I'm here to learn.
>> > --
>> >http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
>>
>> Sorry, but I dont understand the code at all. Where does it takes the
>> names for the oid numbers? Why the translation needs a 'walk' at all?
>> Isnt that possible to perform an acion on given oid (my code produces
>> a list of them) to translate it to human readable output like snmpwalk
>> binary does?
>>
>> --
>> --------------------
>> Spank The Spam!
>
> I haven't looked at the newer version of pysnmp, but I dont know if
> there's a library that maps oids to human readable oids. Besides, I
> didn't really need to read the OIDs as a human, I wanted the values
> for injecting into data stores. Here's a link I found really helpful
> while figuring out my necessary OIDs
> http://www.oid-info.com/
Well, lucky you. Unfortunately I do need this oids in human readable
form, as I need to present them (output of my code) to humans.
> I was responding to your call for example code. I didn't get this in
> the first 2 hours I poured over pysnmp either. Experiment in the
> interpreter, you'll get it. You should be able to use my two functions
> with very minor editing to walk an oid and return values in a
> dictionary. The values will have already been decoded to something you
> should recognize.
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>
My call for example code was for code that actually translates
"1.3.6.1.4.1.2636.5.1.1.2.1.1.1.1.0.1.0.0.0.0.1.38.101.87.145" to
"jnxBgpM2PeerIdentifier.0.ipv4.38.101.161.119.1.38.101.161.118" so the
second one could be read by human to make some decisions. I dont
really need to walk oids, as my small code already gives me even more
than I need, now I just have to translate them to the same form as
snmpwalk binary does. And I have no idea how to do so.
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