Translating pysnmp oids to human readable strings

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On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 8:33 PM,  <rdmurray at bitdance.com> wrote:
> SpamMePlease PleasePlease <spankthespam at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 2:14 PM, Shantanu Joshi <weemadarthur at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > SpamMePlease PleasePlease <spankthespam at googlemail.com> writes:
>> >
>> >> 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?
>> >
>> > The pysnmp library is not able to find your generated file. Either copy
>> > your generated file to /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/pysnmp/v4/smi/mibs/instances
>> > or call setMibPath on the mibBuilder instance before calling loadModules
>> > to add the current directory (or whatever directory holds your generated
>> > file).
>> > --
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>> >
>>
>> The thing is that I have copied the file (as you may see, I did 'ls
>> -lA' on it. If the file wasnt there, the error message was different.
>> Also, the setMibPath doesent seem to work, as I tried to set up it to
>> any value, and right after that I was performing getMibPath which was
>> giving me unchanged default paths. Keep in mind, that whole path setu
>> up code has executed without any error.
>> So, what is correct and working way to supply my code with that
>> converted mib file?
>
> I have absolutely no knowledge of pysnmp, but from reading the error
> message I'd guess that you have a '.py' somewhere where you shouldn't.
> Either the filename shouldn't have a .py, or you are referring to
> the thing to be loaded with a '.py' on the end of the name when you
> should be omitting it.
>
> But like I said, I'm speaking out of my hat here, since I've never
> worked with pysnmp.
>
> --RDM
>
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>

All modules in mentioned by pysnmp directory have .py in name, and
while invoked in the code, they dont. But I also tried some
combinations, with no luck.

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