[SNMP4J] A question about getTable

Frank Fock fock at agentpp.com
Wed Aug 13 00:25:49 CEST 2008


Maybe you need to increase the timeout value
or check if the agent has a bug regarding
lexicographic ordering, which is often
the case in conjunction with the tcpConnTable.

Also the PDU size might impose a problem here.
But that would be also an agent bug.

Best regards,
Frank

Enrique J. Garcia Diaz wrote:
> Hi Frank,
> 
> Thank you for your advice. I have tried without a dot at the beginning 
> but the result is the same. Anyway, i am going to use the standard from now.
> 
> Maybe I make a mistake and the problem is not where I am thinking... I 
> do not know, do you think that is correct my approach?
> 
> Thnks, BR,
> Kike
> 
> 2008/8/13 Frank Fock <fock at agentpp.com <mailto:fock at agentpp.com>>
> 
>     Hi Kike,
> 
>     OIDs do not start with a dot! This is some
>     stupid notation from NET-SNMP which is
>     non-standard. Try "1.3.6.1.2.1.6.13.1.1"
>     instead.
> 
> 
>     Best regards,
>     Frank
> 
>     Enrique J. Garcia Diaz wrote:
> 
>         Hi Frank,
> 
>         I am going to try to explain better my question...
> 
>         I have implemented a method that returns a list with the rows of
>         any table. The method is called getTable and the code is below.
> 
>            public List getTable(String[] oid)   {
>                try  {
>                    snmp.listen();
>                }
>                catch (IOException e)  {
>                    e.printStackTrace();
>                }
>                              TableUtils utils = new TableUtils(snmp, new
>         DefaultPDUFactory());
>                                OID lowerIndex = null;
>                OID upperIndex = null;
>                        OID[] arr = new OID[oid.length];
>                for (int i=0; i<oid.length; i++) arr[i] = new OID(oid[i]);
>                        List list = utils.getTable(target, arr,
>         lowerIndex, upperIndex);
>                                return list;
>            }
> 
>         The input of this method is an array of String that represents
>         the OIDs. In the case of the table TcpConnTable (from RFC1213)
>         the array contains the following values:
> 
>         String [] tcpConnTable = { ".1.3.6.1.2.1.6.13.1.1",
>         ".1.3.6.1.2.1.6.13.1.2", ".1.3.6.1.2.1.6.13.1.3",
>         ".1.3.6.1.2.1.6.13.1.4", ".1.3.6.1.2.1.6.13.1.5" };
> 
>         ".1.3.6.1.2.1.6.13.1.1" belongs to tcpConnState,
>         ".1.3.6.1.2.1.6.13.1.2" belongs to tcpConnLocalAddress, etc.
> 
>         The returned value of this method in the case of TcpConnTable is
>         not valid (is null) and nullPointerException is thrown.
> 
>         I have found some cases that the method returns valid values.
>         For example if I call the method with the following array of String:
>         String [] hrSWRunTable = { ".1.3.6.1.2.1.25.4.2.1.1",
>         ".1.3.6.1.2.1.25.4.2.1.2", ".1.3.6.1.2.1.25.4.2.1.3",
>         ".1.3.6.1.2.1.25.4.2.1.4", ".1.3.6.1.2.1.25.4.2.1.5",
>         ".1.3.6.1.2.1.25.4.2.1.6", ".1.3.6.1.2.1.25.4.2.1.7" }
> 
>         where,
>         ".1.3.6.1.2.1.25.4.2.1.1" belongs to hrSWRunIndex (from
>         HOST_RESOURCES), ".1.3.6.1.2.1.25.4.2.1.2" belongs to
>         hrSWRunName, etc.
> 
>         So, I think that the problem is that I am not able to call this
>         method with the correct array of String that belongs of the list
>         of OIDs of the columns in the table. I have found with a MIB
>         browser that there is a OIDs like I wrote in my previous mail
>         (.1.3.6.1.2.1.6.13.1.1.127.0.0.
>         1.27015.127.0.0.1.1093).
> 
>         Then, I would like to know if I am doing something wrong and how
>         people retrieve data from a table like TcpConnTable.
> 
>         I hope I have explained better with this mail.
> 
>         Thanks and BR,
>         Kike
> 
> 
>         2008/8/12 Frank Fock <fock at agentpp.com <mailto:fock at agentpp.com>
>         <mailto:fock at agentpp.com <mailto:fock at agentpp.com>>>
> 
> 
>            Hello Kike,
> 
>            What exactly is the problem?
> 
>            Best regards,
>            Frank
> 
> 
>            Enrique J. Garcia Diaz wrote:
> 
>                Hello everybody!
> 
>                I have tried to look for an answer first to previous
>         messages but,
>                unfortunately I have not found anything that clarify me.
>         So, I
>                apologize if
>                this is not the best place to ask or if someone has asked
>         before.
> 
>                My problem is that I want to make a program that retrieve
>         SNMP
>                information.
>                In particular, I have some problems retrieving information in
>                some tables,
>                in particular, TcpConnTable (RFC1213).
> 
>                The problem is that if I use getTable method (in
>                org.snmp4j.util.TableUtils), I do not receive the data of the
>                tables. The
>                reason is because some OIDs are something like this:
>                .1.3.6.1.2.1.6.13.1.1.127.0.0.1.27015.127.0.0.1.1093,
>         where the
>                last fields
>                are my IP address and the listened port (info that it is
>         likely
>                that I do
>                not know)
> 
>                So, I am not able to retrieve TcpConnTable using SNMP4J.
>         Anybody
>                has any
>                suggestions? How can I get these variables?
> 
>                I have tried to use GetNext and GetBulk methods but the
>         problem
>                is the same,
>                I do not know the exact name of the OID that I want to
>         retrieve.
>                I hope I
>                have expressed correctly the problem and everybody
>         understand it.
> 
>                Thanks in advanced,
>                Kike
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