Difference between revisions of "Mibs in dmd"

Revision as of 16:55, 19 October 2015

Requirement

You have lots of MIBs imported into Zenoss, probably in several different groups so it is non-trivial even to see what MIBs you have, let alone their contents. Classic example is when you have imported the SNMP version 1 Structure of Management Information (SMI) that is defined in RFC1155. This defines things like iso, org, dod, internet, private, enterprises,....... Now you want to import the SNMP version 2 equivalent, SNMPv2-SMI. If you import it, you find that only the delta between what is in RFC1155 and SNMPv2-SMI is imported and it often breaks other imports that require SNMPv2-SMI as a prerequisite.

This script trawls through the MIBs imported into the Zope database and prints out MIB path, MIB oid and MIB name for each OID, to /tmp/dmd_mibs.out.

I wanted to find which MIB defined "enterprises" so I simply searched the output file for that string.

mibs_in_dmd.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
# Author:       Jane Curry
# Date:         April 17th 2013
# Updated:
# Description:  Write out all imported MIBs with path, oid, id to /tmp/dmd_mibs.out
#
of = open('/tmp/dmd_mibs.out', 'w')
 
# import the stuff that zendmd needs and create the dmd context
import Globals
from Products.ZenUtils.ZenScriptBase import ZenScriptBase
 
dmd = ZenScriptBase(connect=True, noopts=True).dmd
 
 
for b in dmd.Mibs.mibSearch():
    of.write('Path is %s oid is %s id is %s \n' % (b.getPath(), b.oid, b.id))
of.close()

To search for a particular string:

$ grep enterprises /tmp/dmd_mibs.out 
Path is /zport/dmd/Mibs/mibs/SNMPv2-SMI/nodes/enterprises oid is 1.3.6.1.4.1 id is enterprises 

This shows that enterprises is 1.3.6.1.4.1 and is defined in the SNMPv2-SMI MIB.

JaneCurry (talk) 18:17, 16 December 2014 (UTC)