SNMP4JR is both a wrapper for SNMP4J and a library unto itself. I’ve noticed that many of the JRuby libs seem to be simple wrappers, but interpreted languages usually have easier interfaces to things like SNMP(SNMP for PHP for instance, and the ruby SNMP libs). To understand the differences between this library and the pure ruby SNMP libs please see the SNMP4J website or the feature list below:
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Wrappers written in Ruby with ease of use in mind.
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Very high performance
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Thread safe
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Simple interface(SNMPMulti) for polling multiple devices with an OID list or hand crafted PDU
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Full access to SNMP4J API functionality
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SNMPv3 with MD5 and SHA authentication and DES and AES 128, AES 192, and AES 256 privacy.
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Pluggable Message Processing Models with implementations for MPv1, MPv2c, and MPv3
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All PDU types.
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Pluggable transport mappings. UDP and TCP are supported out-of-the-box.
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Pluggable timeout model.
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Synchronous and asynchronous requests.
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Command generator as well as command responder support.
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Free open source with the Apache license model
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Java™ 1.4.1 or later
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Logging based on Log4J
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Row-based efficient asynchronous table retrieval with GETBULK.
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Multi-threading support.
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JUnit tests (will be available in version 2.x and later)
Wrappers are provided for all API calls for SNMP4J. Use them as you would use the Java libs directly. Please refer to SNMP4J documentation for further direction.
SNMPTarget Utility class usage:
target = SNMPTarget.new(:host => 'localhost', :community => 'public') target.get_bulk ['1.3.6.1.2.1.1.1', '1.3.6.1.2.1.1.3'] puts target.result_to_s # bulk walk (defaults to version 2c bulk walk, but will do v1 if version is set) target.walk('1.3.6.1.2.1.1') # System mib puts target.result_to_s # helper functions have been added for common mibs: system, processes, resources, # interfaces, ifX, full_interfaces, and volumes target.walk_system # System walk helper, same as above puts target.result_to_s # you can set too, just make sure you specify the r/w string as the :community target = SNMPTarget.new(:host => '127.0.0.1', :community => 'private') # you need to pass in the SMI encoded option here # Available SMI classes are: # AbstractVariable, BitString, Counter32, Counter64, Gauge32, GenericAddress, Integer32, # IpAddress, Null, OctetString, OID, Opaque, SMIAddress, TcpAddress, TimeTicks, # TransportIpAddress, UdpAddress, UnsignedInteger32, VariantVariable email = SNMP4JR::SMI::OctetString.new('mark.cotner@gmail.com') target.set('1.3.6.1.2.1.1.4.0', email).to_s
Please see the wiki and examples directory for more examples: wiki.github.com/awksedgreep/SNMP4JR/
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Currently only supports the API, but agent support could be added. If you would like to implement an agent in JRuby please let me know and I’ll try to add it. Please specify if you would like to implement an agent or AgentX as these are two different things.
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If you would like commercial support for SNMP4J. Please see this page Support:www.snmp4j.org/html/support.html PLEASE NOTE that this is NOT a support mechanism for this gem, but for the library it wraps. For gem support see the github repository at: github.com/awksedgreep/SNMP4JR
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SNMP4J is included with this gem and is released with an Apache 2.0 license which can be found here: www.snmp4j.org/LICENSE-2_0.txt
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