Best Method to dynamically query SNMP results in SolarWinds?

All,

I am trying to determine the best method to query some OIDs. These OIDs follow the same same structure, ie object 1 is 1.1.1.1, properties of object 1 are 1.1.1.1.1...9, object 2 is 1.1.1.2, object 2's properties are 1.1.1.2.1...9, etc. Some devices with have 10 objects and some will have 2, it will vary. Note that all the properties of each object are strings. It seems in the current versions of SolarWinds products that to query this data I would have to utilize one of these approaches:

-Create UNDPs and then have a script to dynamically assign the UNDPs to each node. I still have the problem of determining how many objects are running on the node.

-Utilize a tool like Net-SNMP inside of a powershell component template in SAM. Then I could determine the number of objects that are being used. and use other SAM components with Net-SNMP to poll the data I would want.

Are there any other ways I could poll this data in SAM or NPM?

I appreciate any feedback that is provided.

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mesverrum

The undp tool has a table query, which is what it sounds to me like you are describing. Use that?

johnny_ringo

mesverrum, I thought of UNDP but this does not allow you to monitor the table dynamically. What if one day there is 5 rows of data and another day there is 3? I don't expect this data to be that dynamic but I do expect it to flucuate from day to day. I was hoping web based pollers would be an option here but I do not see how you can configure pollers for custom OIDs that are not related to node details or CPU/Memory.

Anyone else have ideas?

johnny_ringo

UPDATE

I was able to get a script using Net-SNMP working however it was cumbersome because I could't give it a an array of OIDs to poll and because all of the data returned by Net-SNMP is initially returned as a string.

antonis.athanasiou's use of Proxx.SNMP here: Dell Server - Storage Hardware Health v1.2 . This appears to overcome these limitations since it can support an array of OIDs and returns objects instead of strings. I will update this thread once I have something working.