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how to get type of oid in pysnmp i.e it is COUNTER,INTEGER...etc


i have oid name and when i pass that oid name to an api it should give data type of that oid_name using pysnmp.

suppose i pass case1 : ssCpuRawSystem it should give me Integer32 . case2 : ssCpuRawUser it should give me Counter32 case3 : ssErrorName it should give me DisplayString


Solution

  • Depending on your preferred granularity, you can use PySNMP's MIB API,

    from pysnmp.proto.rfc1902 import ObjectIdentifier
    from pysnmp.smi import builder, view, compiler
    
    # Create MIB builder
    mibBuilder = builder.MibBuilder()
    
    # Optionally compile MIBs
    compiler.addMibCompiler(mibBuilder, sources=["/usr/share/snmp/mibs"])
    
    mibBuilder.loadTexts = True
    
    # Load MIB modules
    mibBuilder.loadModules("SNMPv2-MIB")
    # mibBuilder.addMibSources(builder.DirMibSource('/Users/lextm/pysnmp.com/pysnmp/mibs'))
    # mibBuilder.loadModule('LEXTUDIO-MIB')
    
    # Create MIB view controller
    mibViewController = view.MibViewController(mibBuilder)
    
    # Create an OID object
    oid = ObjectIdentifier("1.3.6.1.2.1.1.3.0")
    
    # Get the MIB name and symbol name for the OID
    modName, symName, suffix = mibViewController.getNodeLocation(oid)
    
    # Get the MIB node for the OID
    (mibNode,) = mibBuilder.importSymbols(modName, symName)
    
    # Get the description of the MIB node
    description = mibNode.getDescription()
    
    # Print the results
    print("OID: %s" % oid)
    print("MIB name: %s" % modName)
    print("Symbol name: %s" % symName)
    print("Description: %s" % description)
    print("Syntax: %s" % mibNode.getSyntax().__class__.__name__) # <- The syntax object contains everything you want to know
    

    Taken from official example