As a software developer what is your SNMP suite that easy to integrate into your software

Question

Well, altough the S of the SNMP stands for Simple, yet, so far I haven't experienced it that way. And now that I am about to deploy my software on around around 180 remote Linux servers and wants to monitor the servers and configure my daemons all from a centralized point.

I simply want you to recommend me the library which you'll confidently describe as "SNMP Made Easy".

I am looking for a suite of software which not standing in the developer's way, easy to work with (install, configure).

Speaking from the NOC perspective, the ideal would be such one which requires no maintenance once installed.

Note: Open Source is mandatory.

Answer 1

Try Net-SNMP . It has BSD licence. If you are open for java snmp4j is the best.

Answer 2

I wouldn't describe it as easy, but the easiest I've found (quite a while ago) was pysnmp -- I had to wrap it with a couple of façades to make it somewhat usable by people who weren't deep SNMP experts (and that code I had to leave behind at a previous employer, was never open-sourced, and I couldn't reconstruct it right now but would have to develop again from scratch). However, so many years have passed (with PySNMP in continuous development, now with a PSF grant too) that it may definitely have gotten better (one can hope;-).

Answer 3

Hi. I am still searching for that easy to use suite of SNMP tools/API myself.

I build OA&M and I've tried NET-SNMP, Windows SNMP and lately agentpp (www.agentpp.com). Personally, I preferred the agentpp.

Good luck to you.

Answer 4

The Wikipedia page lists all kinds of open source SNMP implementation (C/C++/C#/Java and so on).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Network_Management_Protocol

Answer 5

The "S" in SNMP is actually for "simple" not because using it is simple, but rather because the protocol (on the wire) is designed to be simple and easy to implement. And it is. Now... actually implementing it and then using it is where the S completely drops away.