View source for DISMAN-PING-MIB

The [[DISMAN]] WG produced a [[MIB]] for performing remote pings from a remote device.  This MIB was entitled the DISMAN-PING-MIB.

== Net-SNMP Implementation Notes ==

These modules work, but:

 - They are Linux only
 - Rows must be created with rowStatus createAndWait before they are populated
 - Agent must run as root
 - Agent is blocked while tests run
 - Data format for InetAddress objects is wrong. It is ASCII, not binary
   (making it easier to use from the command line, but ...)

== Helpful Script ==

Niels Baggesen provided the following useful script:

  #!/bin/bash
  
  WHERE=$1
  KIND=$2
  WHAT=$3
  
  INX='"nba"."A"'
  CRED="-v2c -cpublic -r0"
  
  snmpset $CRED $WHERE \
          DISMAN-PING-MIB::pingCtlRowStatus.$INX = destroy \
  
  snmpset $CRED $WHERE \
  	DISMAN-PING-MIB::pingCtlRowStatus.$INX = createAndWait \
  
  snmpset $CRED $WHERE \
  	DISMAN-PING-MIB::pingCtlTargetAddressType.$INX = $KIND \
  	DISMAN-PING-MIB::pingCtlTargetAddress.$INX = $WHAT \
  	DISMAN-PING-MIB::pingCtlProbeCount.$INX = 10 \
  	DISMAN-PING-MIB::pingCtlAdminStatus.$INX = enabled
  
  snmpset $CRED $WHERE \
  	DISMAN-PING-MIB::pingCtlRowStatus.$INX = active \
  
  snmptable $CRED -Cb -Cw 120 $WHERE DISMAN-PING-MIB::pingCtlTable
  sleep 5
  snmptable $CRED -Cib -Cw 120 $WHERE DISMAN-PING-MIB::pingResultsTable
  snmptable $CRED -Cib -Cw 120 $WHERE DISMAN-PING-MIB::pingProbeHistoryTable

Which will let you call it like this:

  ./snmpping localhost ipv4 130.226.1.2

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