From: yermej <yermej@...>
Date: 2008-01-17T02:00:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Help decoding UDPSocket trap data

On Jan 16, 10:23 am, jackster the jackle <cont...@thirdorder.net>
wrote:
> yermej wrote:
> > I'm not sure, but the data format is probably dependent on the Cisco
> > devices. I would check their documentation for more info.
>
> > You might also want to check out Ruby SNMP -
> >http://snmplib.rubyforge.org/
> > - rather than writing your own socket routines.
>
> Good call yermej...thanks.
>
> I copied the basic TrapListener script as follows and am receiving traps
> that are readable:
> -----------code one ---------------
> require 'snmp'
> require 'logger'
>
> log = Logger.new(STDOUT)
>   m = SNMP::TrapListener.new do |manager|
>       manager.on_trap_default do |trap|
>           log.info trap.inspect
> puts "------------------"
> puts logger.value
>       end
>   end
>   m.join
> ----------------------------------
>
> Interestingly enough, if I change the code a bit and print out
> "logger.value",
> you see the exact type of trap formatting that I originally asked about
> in my initiail request:
> -------------code two ----------------
> log = Logger.new(STDOUT)
>   m = SNMP::TrapListener.new do |manager|
>       manager.on_trap_default do |trap|
>           log.info trap.inspect
> puts logger.value
>       end
>   end
>   m.join
> ----------------------------------
> What is the best way to get my logger values out if "code one" listed
> above so that I can manipulate them? I'd like to be able to access this
> output from "code one" for instance:
> ----------------------code three ------------
>  @value="Interface GigabitEthernet7/12, changed state to down",
> ---------------------------------------------
>
> thanks
>
> jackster.mobi
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Sorry, but I'm not seeing much difference between one & two. Where is
the local variable logger defined? If "log.info trap.inspect" is
printing the type of data you want, I would think that trap.inspect is
what you would want to operate on.