Trying to understand what snmp4jAgentJMX does and if it suits what I need.

Question

Hi, I been trying to write an snmp wrapper agent for my JMX Enabled application which will translate all the information that is layd out in JMX MBeans into SNMP attributes.

I'm a bit at loss in trying to understand where to start and what to use. From what I've read, snmp4j is probably the go to snmp library for Java but I couldn't manage to understand the code examples that are in the Snmp4jAgent.

Also, from reading the description for SNMP4JAgentJMX in the authors web site I think Snmp4jAgentJMX could help me write this agent but I could not understand how to use it. Actually, looking at the example code (org.snmp4j.agent.mo.jmx.example.JMXTestAgent) I could not find the part where the code registers with any MBean or JMX Factory, which led me to assume that what I did not understand correctly what this code does.

I would very much appreciate code examples and/or some tutorials or documentation for someone who has not had experience with SNMP.

Thank you!!

Answer 1

After much research it I found this package that uses snmp4j agent to wrap JMX and give out SNMP services.

With this package, all you have to do is register with the MBean and change the JMX-SNMP mapping.