Re: [Pysnmp-dev] oneliners

[Ilya E. <il...@gl...>]

> Do these only apply to v3 arch - I see there is an
> examples\v3arch\oneliner directory but no examples\v1arch\oneliner
> directory?

As of this writing, there's no very-high-level API (AKA one-liner) to
SNMPv1/v2c architecture. Though, it is planned for implementation.

>  However the scripts in examples\v1arch\manager are 'Command generator
> application' scripts according to the comments in the script.

That's right. In pysnmp, there are several API layers -- there is a
low-level one, which follows SNMP architecture as specified in RFCs.
The others are more high-level and pythonic. These examples\v1arch\
scripts are written over the highest-level API currently available for
SNMPv1/v2c arch (which is high-level API to SNMP message objects).

>  I want to use a v2c compliant script to create table entries in a node
> that is v3 compliant.

I'm not quite certain what your aim is. Are you going to manage some
SNMPv3-complient SNMP agent with SNMPv2c SNMP manager? Please, clarify.

In fact, SNMPv2c & SNMPv3 uses the same SMI model which is SMIv2.

The bottom line is that with SNMPv3 architecture of pysnmp (pysnmp-4.x)
you could talk to SNMP engine of any architecture, as there is an internal
SNMP proxy inside SNMPv3 arch of pysnmp doing protocol & SMI translations
behind the scene.

-ilya