Thank you - that seems to have worked.
Winston
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From: Magnus Fromreide <ma...@lysator.liu.se>
Sent: Tuesday, February 8, 2022 12:47 PM
To: Winston Gadsby <wgad...@enginuitycom.com>
Cc: Larry Hayes <lhay...@gmail.com>; net-snmp-coders@lists.sourceforge.net
<net-snmp-coders@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: Re-registering sysContact and sysLocation with subagent
On Tue, Feb 08, 2022 at 02:28:57PM +0000, Winston Gadsby wrote:
> It turns out I never did have it working. I'm trying to reregister
> sysContact and/or sysLocation from my subagent running under a master agent.
> I think reregistering a system oid via a subagent is impossible.
It is quite possible.
You should just set the priority.
The attached files can be compiled using
gcc netsnmptmp.348085.c sysContact.c -o sysContact -lnetsnmpagent -lnetsnmp
and then run like
./sysContact -f -Lo -Dagentx
(the arguments are just to make it run in the foreground and log agentx
interactions)
The important part - as I said last week - is to use a lower priority than
the one the agent uses so the magic line is sysContact.c:27.
/MF
> I set up a sample subagent project in c as described here:
> http://www.net-snmp.org/wiki/index.php/TUT:Writing_a_Subagent. I set up
> debugging. When I try to unregister an object using unregister_mib(), it
> eventually calls unregister_mib_context() with null context, which calls
> netsnmp_subtree_find(). This returns a subtree with a single oid {1,}, or
> this plus a subtree consisting of the newly registered element in the sample
> code, if I register the sample element first. It tries to find the
> sysLocation node to unregister in this tree, which fails, since the returned
> tree only consists of objects I've registered in the subagent. If I replace
> sysLocation with nstAgentSubagentObject (the newly registered element from
> the example code) it does successfully unregister.
>
> I turned on debugging in snmpd for register_mib, to verify that sysLocation
> and sysContact are being registered in null context by the master agentx:
>
> register_mib:
> Feb 08 09:01:25 emma snmpd[169114]: registering "mibII/sysLocation" at
> Feb 08 09:01:25 emma snmpd[169114]: iso.3.6.1.2.1.1.6
> Feb 08 09:01:25 emma snmpd[169114]: with context "(null)"
>
> I don't think it's possible to unregister or reregister sysLocation or
> sysContact from a subagent, if the node was initially registered in the
> master agentx.
>
> Winston
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Winston Gadsby <wgad...@enginuitycom.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 2, 2022 1:29 PM
> To: Magnus Fromreide <ma...@lysator.liu.se>
> Cc: Larry Hayes <lhay...@gmail.com>; net-snmp-coders@lists.sourceforge.net
> <net-snmp-coders@lists.sourceforge.net>
> Subject: Re: Re-registering sysContact and sysLocation with subagent
>
> You're right. It looks like it's expecting an unsigned long array (c_oid_p
> in the python wrapper). Here's what I did in python. First, I defined the
> unregister_mib arguments for the ctypes translation:
>
> $ libnsa.unregister_mib.argtypes = [c_oid_p, ctypes.c_size_t]
> $ libnsa.unregister_mib.restype = ctypes.c_int
>
> Then I defined the oid vars:
>
> $ oid = (c_oid * MAX_OID_LEN)()
> $ oid_len = ctypes.c_size_t(MAX_OID_LEN)
>
> c_oid is the ctypes definition for oid, ctypes.c_ulong. Then c_oid_p is a
> pointer to it. Then I used read_objid to translate from the text to the
> unsigned long format:
>
> $ libnsa.read_objid(b"SNMPv2-MIB::sysContact", ctypes.cast(ctypes.byref(oid),
> c_oid_p), ctypes.byref(oid_len))
>
> The result looks correct: [1, 3, 6, 1, 2, 1, 1, 4, ...]. Then I used this
> oid and oid_len in unregister_mib, translating the args appropriately:
>
> $ result = libnsa.unregister_mib(ctypes.cast(ctypes.byref(oid), c_oid_p),
> oid_len)
>
> The result is still always -1 (MIB_NOSUCHREGISTRATION). However, it looks
> like it works, at least for sysContact. If I ignore the error and reregister
> sysContact with my subagent it works. I can change it in my program and see
> the change in a mib browser.
>
> The very strange thing is I'm doing this with two separate, similar variables
> - sysContact and sysLocation. SysContact always works, with the exception of
> the above error. SysLocation always gives me another error when I start the
> agent: registering pdu failed 263, and I am unable to change its value in my
> application. When I started all this, and didn't do any unregister_mib
> calls, I'd get two of the "registering pdu failed 263" errors, I'm assuming
> one for sysContact and one for sysLocation. So it looks like sysContact is
> now working, but sysLocation is still registered with the master agent. I'm
> tracing this out and hoping it is a simple typo somewhere with sysLocation.
>
> What type of agentx library did you have in mind?
>
> Thanks again.
>
> Winston
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Magnus Fromreide <ma...@lysator.liu.se>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 1, 2022 8:56 PM
> To: Winston Gadsby <wgad...@enginuitycom.com>
> Cc: Larry Hayes <lhay...@gmail.com>; net-snmp-coders@lists.sourceforge.net
> <net-snmp-coders@lists.sourceforge.net>
> Subject: Re: Re-registering sysContact and sysLocation with subagent
>
> On Tue, Feb 01, 2022 at 02:58:14PM +0000, Winston Gadsby wrote:
> > Hi,
> > Thanks for the replies. I'm working on trying to unregister the oid
> > according to the link given below, using unregister_mib(oid, len). I'm
> > assuming the oid can be specified as a byte-string or integer array. The
> > difficulty I'm having is probably related to the ctypes translation
> > mechanism from python. Here's what I'm using in python. The ctypes module
> > enables the translation from the C libraries to python and imports the
> > net-snmp space as libnsa:
> >
> > import ctypes
> > from netsnmpapi import *
> > import netsnmpvartypes
> > libnsa = ctypes.cdll.LoadLibrary(ctypes.util.find_library("netsnmpagent"))
> > ...
> > {code that registers oids from new mib}
> > ...
> > {start subagent}
> > print(libnsa.unregister_mib(b("SNMPv2-MIB::sysContact"),
> > len("SNMPv2-MIB::sysContact"))
> >
> > This always returns -1, whether I unregister before starting the agent or
> > after. I've also tried unregistering some objects from my mib that were
> > previously registered with the same result.
>
> This looks like you are calling the unregister_mib c function in a dlopened
> version of netsnmp.
>
> That function takes a parameter of type array of oid, what exact type oid is
> depends on how your netsnmp library was built but it usually is unsigned long.
> That array should contain the numerical OID value, in your case that would be
> { 1, 3, 6, 1, 2, 1, 1, 4 } but honestly I think an agentx library would serve
> you better.
>
> /MF
>
>
>
> > Winston
> > ________________________________
> > From: Larry Hayes <lhay...@gmail.com>
> > Sent: Friday, January 28, 2022 4:48 PM
> > To: Winston Gadsby <wgad...@enginuitycom.com>
> > Cc: net-snmp-coders@lists.sourceforge.net
> > <net-snmp-coders@lists.sourceforge.net>
> > Subject: Re: Re-registering sysContact and sysLocation with subagent
> >
> > Someone just this month asked about taking control of the system
> > description. I would suspect that sysContact and sysLocation would follow
> > the same way.
> >
> > Their solution was to unregister the OID then register your own handler.
> >
> >
> > unregister_mib() API.
> >
> > https://sourceforge.net/p/net-snmp/mailman/message/37598495/
> >
> >
> > It is a hassle, but you can also control the values of those inside of a
> > snmpd.local.conf file.
> >
> > syscontact Nobody <nob...@dev.null>
> >
> > Your agent would write the values to that file then SIGHUP the snmpd to
> > pick up the changes.
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Jan 28, 2022 at 3:37 PM Winston Gadsby
> > <wgad...@enginuitycom.com<mailto:wgad...@enginuitycom.com>> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I'm running a subagent based on python-netsnmpagent, along with the
> > distribution snmpd (net-snmp) agent on a Debian embedded system. I'm using
> > the version of snmpd that comes default with the distribution - 5.7.3. I
> > have a custom MIB for my new variables, similar to SIMPLE-MIB.txt in the
> > python-netsnmpagent example. Through the standard snmp command line
> > commands I am able to read and write to the standard MIB defined OIDs, and
> > to the new OIDs in my MIB, without issue.
> >
> > I would like to also be able to take over management of sysContact and
> > sysLocation through my subagent. This makes it easier to control these
> > variables through my outside gui. I've tried registering
> > SNMPv2-MIB::sysContact and SNMPv2-MIB::sysLocation through the agentx
> > socket, but receive error 263 - duplicate registration. It seems the
> > primary agent has already registered these variables and won't give up
> > control.
> >
> > How does the agent know which variables the subagent can register and which
> > it cannot? Is my error due to another cause? My custom MIB is located in
> > the same directory as the rest of the system MIBs, in the search path -
> > /usr/share/snmp/mibs. When I register a variable from my MIB, the master
> > agent accepts it. When I attempt to register sysContact or sysLocation it
> > is denied. If all the MIBs are stored together, how does it know my
> > SIMPLE-MIB objects can be registered, but the others cannot? Is there
> > configuration somewhere else that determines which MIB variables I can
> > register and which I cannot? Am I only able to register variables in the
> > new MIB? How does it know which MIBs are custom and which are standard?
> > I've checked the snmpd.conf file, and it looks like I can define OID trees
> > that trigger external programs, but there doesn't appear to be
> > configuration for which OIDs are under master control and which can be
> > controlled by the subagent, for normal snmp command line access.
> >
> > Is there perhaps a better way of going about doing this?
> >
> > I've gone through the mail lists and haven't been able to find an answer to
> > this question. Any help/pointers on this would be much appreciated. Thank
> > you,
> >
> > Winston
> >
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