Multi-core SNMP Version 0.1.0

This is a process based wrapper around the Python binding for Net-SNMP. It uses multiprocessing from Python 2.6 or greater to create a worker pool that processes SNMP requests. Net-SNMP with Python bindings are synchronous, but this API solves that problem.

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Example

Here is an example of it running on localhost on a mac laptop

mac% time python multisnmp.py
Unordered results:
	('Darwin mac.local 9.6.0 Darwin Kernel Version 9.6.0: Mon Nov 24 17:37:00 PST 2008; root:xnu-1228.9.59~1/RELEASE_I386 i386',)
	('Darwin mac.local 9.6.0 Darwin Kernel Version 9.6.0: Mon Nov 24 17:37:00 PST 2008; root:xnu-1228.9.59~1/RELEASE_I386 i386',)
Stopping Process #0
Stopping Process #1
python multisnmp.py  0.18s user 0.08s system 107% cpu 0.236 total

Download

You can download the script here:

http://multicore-snmp.googlecode.com/files/multicore_0.1.0.py.zip

Or you can work on a version from the trunk:

http://code.google.com/p/multicore-snmp/source/browse/trunk/multicore.py

Requirements

Install Python 2.6 or greater, and make sure it is first in your path. For example, if you just type python you should see the python 2.6 prompt.

Download and compile Net-SNMP 5.4.2.1 or greater with Python bindings:

http://www.net-snmp.org/download.html

Make sure you compile with this option AND have python2.6 as your default python.

./configure --with-python-modules

To Do

A lot. This is just a quick and dirty proof of concept. This will be turned into a fairly high level API shortly though. Stay tuned!