Can jboss snmp adapter(snmp agent) be extended to support my defined MIB?

Question

I have our own MIB files, and I know in many cases, I have to write snmp agent to support my own MIB.

But this time, I think if I can make jboss snmp adapter(JBossSNMPAdapter) to support my MIB, it will be much easier. So that, through jboss snmp adapter, I can query by its oid. I know JBossSNMPAdapter already suppport MIB-II.

I wonder if jboss snmp adapter can suppport user defined MIB so that user can query by oid? And how to configure? Are there some materials about this (jboss snmp adapter)?

Thanks a lot

Answer 1

Yes, this is quite straightforward to do.

Inside the snmp-agent.sar directory, you'll see a file called attributes.xml. This file associates SNMP OIDs with JMX attributes.

So for each item in your MIB, you need to expose that information via a JMX MBean, and then add the OID->JMX association to attributes.xml.

The agent itself neither knows nor cares about your MIB, so you need to be careful to specify the OIDs in attributes.xml properly.