From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2004-03-22T21:51:21-08:00
Subject: Re: SNMP module for Ruby

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Daniel Hobe (daniel@nightrunner.com) wrote:

> The one system administration-ish module that Ruby is missing is a good a=
 SNMP=20
> library.  Perl has a good wrapper around UCD/NET-snmp and is one of the f=
ew=20
> reasons I could think of for still using Perl.  ruby-snmp is based on an=
=20
> outdated version of the UCD-snmp library and doesn't seem to have been=20
> updated since 2001.  The link to the simple_snmp homepage on RAA is broke=
n so=20
> I couldn't take a look at it.

You could always try google:

http://w3cic.riken.go.jp/~tsuruoka/

> It would be useful to have a good SNMP library available through Ruby, an=
d=20
> would make it easier to pitch Ruby to some of the networking folks I know.
>=20
> Is this something any one else is working on?  I've never wrapped a C lib=
rary=20
> before so I'm a bit hesitant about starting with this one.

Last time I compiled it, I think I had to fix the C source, because a
member wasn't static (or was static, my C is rusty).

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