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Essential SNMP, 2nd Edition
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Essential SNMP, 2nd Edition

by Douglas Mauro, Kevin Schmidt
September 2005
Beginner content levelBeginner
462 pages
12h 56m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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SNMP set

The SnmpSet class looks very similar to the SnmpWalk class. As with the SnmpWalk class, _pduType is set to the appropriate SNMP operation we plan to perform:

      private int _pduType = PDU.SET;

We've introduced a doSet() method that operates in a similar manner to the doWalk() method of the SnmpWalk class. An SNMP set has the following components:

  • An OID

  • The syntax for the OID

  • A new or different value you wish the OID to take on in the target's SNMP stack

The difference between these classes lies in that third element, the new value you are setting to.

Let's look at the Main class, which uses SnmpSet:

    public class Main{
      public Main(){
      }

      public static void main(String[] args){
        System.out.println("Doing SNMPv2 set..");
        SnmpSet set = new SnmpSet("127.0.0.1",
          "1.3.6.1.2.1.1.6.0={s}Right here, right
        now.");
          set.doSet();

        System.out.println("Doing SNMPv3 set..");
        set = new SnmpSet("127.0.0.1",
          "1.3.6.1.2.1.1.6.0={s}Some place else..",
          "kschmidt","MD5","mysecretpass","DES","mypassphrase");
        set.doSet();
      }
    }

The notation we are using to specify the OID, syntax, and value is the same as the notation for the SNMP4J command-line tool. It has the following format:

            OID={syntax}value_for_OID

Table 14-1 lists the different values that syntax can take on, along with the corresponding SNMP4J class that is used to encode value_for_OID into that type.

Table 14-1. Syntax values with SNMP4J class names

Syntax value

SNMP4J class

Meaning

i

Integer32

Signed 32-bit integer

u

UnsignedInteger32

Unsigned ...

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