Anouncing guile-snmp

Anouncing guile-snmp

[Tristan Colgate]

Hi All,

  I'd like to anounce guile-snmp to the world at large. This is a
wrapper for the net-snmp library, allowing for threadsafe snmp
get/set/walk using the net-snmp single session API. It also comes with
a nice shell tool, that wraps up basic setup functions and has a handy
feature that automatically unknown identifiers into oids looked up in
MIBs.

  A fairly limited set of routines are wrapped at present (with more
to come), but these are sufficient to achieve very useful things in a
few lines of code. Documentation is currently limited to a small set
of example scripts, but I intend working on some useful documentation
soon.

  I've been using this stuff in various forms for a couple of years
now and find writing complicated reports much quicker that with perl
Net::SNMP (as much as I loved ti). I also find the resulting scripts
much easier to read months down the line.

  The project currently live on github. A buildable archive of the
current release can be downloaded from:

  https://github.com/tcolgate/guile-snmp/downloads

   The code is tested on various flavours of guile 2.0, and requires
net-snmp and it's headers to be installed to build.

  After working on the docs I intend attaching agent support to allow
extending any guile enabled app with an snmp agent.

-- 
Tristan Colgate-McFarlane
----
  "You can get all your daily vitamins from 52 pints of guiness, and a
glass of milk"

Re: Anouncing guile-snmp

[rixed]

>   After working on the docs I intend attaching agent support to allow
> extending any guile enabled app with an snmp agent.

Regarding this, were you aware of https://github.com/securactive/guile-agentx ?

Re: Anouncing guile-snmp

[Tristan Colgate]

On 21 February 2012 16:36,  <rixed@happyleptic.org> wrote:
> Regarding this, were you aware of https://github.com/securactive/guile-agentx ?

  It did pop up in some searches a while back but didn't seem to be
particularly actively developed at the time.

  Also, by using net-snmp directly, I should be able to support stand
alone agents, smux, agentx and dynamically loaded agents embedded
directly into net-snmp. I also don't have to worry about implementing
the wire protocols (which side steps most of the bits I'd be most
scared of).

-- 
Tristan Colgate-McFarlane
----
  "You can get all your daily vitamins from 52 pints of guiness, and a
glass of milk"