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MIB submission process

To achieve human-readable OIDs, the corresponding MIB files are necessary. They are stored in the MIB server, which is one of the components of SC4SNMP.

See the following link for a list of currently available MIBs: https://pysnmp.github.io/mibs/index.csv

An alternative way to check if the MIB you are interested in is being served is to check the following link: https://pysnmp.github.io/mibs/asn1/@mib@ where @mib@ is the name of MIB, for example, IF-MIB. If the file is downloading, that means the MIB file exists in the MIB server.

Submit new MIB file

In case you want to add a new MIB file to the MIB server, see the following steps:

  1. Create a fork of the https://github.com/pysnmp/mibs repository.

  2. Put one or more MIB files under src/vendor/@vendor_name@ where @vendor_name@ is the name of the MIB file’s vendor. If there is currently no directory of vendors that you need, create it yourself.

  3. Create a pull request to a main branch.

  4. Name the pull request the following way: feat: add @vendor_name@ MIB files.

An alternative way of adding MIBs to the MIB server is to create an issue in the https://github.com/pysnmp/mibs repository, attaching the files and information about the vendor.

Update your instance of SC4SNMP with the newest MIB server

Usually SC4SNMP is released with the newest version of MIB server every time the new MIB files are added. But, if you want to use the newest MIB server right after it is released, you can do it manually using the values. yaml file:

  1. Append mibserver configuration to the values.yaml, with the mibserver.image.tag of a value of the newest mibserver, for example: 

    mibserver:
  image:
    tag: "1.15.13"
    Check all the MIB server releases in https://github.com/pysnmp/mibs/releases.

  2. Run microk8s helm3 upgrade --install snmp -f values.yaml splunk-connect-for-snmp/splunk-connect-for-snmp --namespace=sc4snmp --create-namespace.

  3. Restart the following worker-trap and worker-poller deployments:

microk8s kubectl rollout restart deployment snmp-splunk-connect-for-snmp-worker-trap -n sc4snmp
microk8s kubectl rollout restart deployment snmp-splunk-connect-for-snmp-worker-poller -n sc4snmp

Beta: use MIB server with local MIBs

From the 1.15.0 version of the MIB server, there is a way to use local MIB files. This may be useful when your MIB files are proprietary, or you use SC4SNMP offline. This way, you can update necessary MIBs by yourself, without having to go through the MIB request procedure.

In order to add your MIB files to the MIB server in standalone SC4SNMP installation:

  1. Create or choose a directory on the machine where SC4SNMP is installed, for example, /home/user/local_mibs.
  2. Create vendor directories inside. For example, if you have MIB files from VENDOR1 and VENDOR2, create /home/user/local_mibs/VENDOR1 and /home/user/local_mibs/VENDOR2 and put files inside accordingly. Putting wrong vendor names will not make compilation fail, this is more for the logging purposes. Segregating your files will make troubleshooting easier.
  3. MIB files should be named the same as the contained MIB module. The MIB module name is specified at the beginning of the MIB file before ::= BEGIN keyword.
  4. Add the following to the values.yaml:
mibserver:
  localMibs:
    pathToMibs: "/home/user/local_mibs"

To verify that the process of compilation was completed successfully, check the mibserver logs using the following command:

microk8s kubectl logs -f deployments/snmp-mibserver -n sc4snmp

This creates a Kubernetes pvc with MIB files inside and maps it to the MIB server pod. Also, you can change the storageClass and size of persistence according to the mibserver schema, see https://github.com/pysnmp/mibs/blob/main/charts/mibserver/values.yaml. The default persistence size is 1 Gibibyte, so consider reducing or expanding it to the amount you actually need. Whenever you add new MIB files, rollout restart MIB server pods to compile them again, using the following command:

microk8s kubectl rollout restart deployment snmp-mibserver -n sc4snmp

For a multi-node Kubernetes installation, create pvc beforehand, copy files onto it, and add it to the MIB server using persistence.existingClaim. If you go with the localMibs.pathToMibs solution for a multi-node installation (with nodeSelector set up to schedule MIB server pods on the same node where the MIB files are), when the Node with the mapped hostPath fails, you will have to access the MIB files on another node.