SNMP in VB

Question

_{Friday, March 8, 2013 10:51 AM}

Hi,

I have to develop an application that has to fetch data from devices running SNMP using snmpget...

1. What method should i use to program this??

2. Should i rely on some third party API's or is it possible to develop an API by myself..

3. Does socket programming has anything to do with this..

I am using Visual Studio 2008 Express edition for development...

Kindly help me out..

Thanks,

Anantha Subramaniam

All replies (5)

_{Friday, March 8, 2013 12:18 PM ✅Answered}

I don't recommend use 3rd party dll unless source code is provided.  I usually recommend going to msdn and doing a search for code projects.  There doesn't seem to be any VB code projects that does SNMP without source code.  There are a few for C#.  You can use the C# code and create a dll and then reference the compiled C# in you VBnet project.  The code in th ewebsite below I believe does that.

http://www.codeproject.com/script/Articles/ViewDownloads.aspx?aid=12993

Here is a good C# project

http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/12993/SNMP-library

jdweng

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_{Friday, March 8, 2013 2:11 PM ✅Answered}

Anantha, 

Managed program languages like VB and C# are not meant for this kind of low level OS tasks. 

Use for that unmanaged C++ or even C. You even can think about Intel Assembler if the task are done on a real low level of the Internet protocol.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snmp

Success
Cor

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_{Friday, March 8, 2013 3:11 PM ✅Answered}

Take a look at this library

http://sharpsnmplib.codeplex.com/

I'd read the documentation carefully to see if this is what you need.

SNMP uses UDP.

What are you trying to accomplish?

"Those who use Application.DoEvents() have no idea what it does and those who know what it does never use it." JohnWein

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_{Monday, March 11, 2013 4:32 AM}

Hi dbasnett,

I need to develop a module that could be used as a simple snmp get module by taking ip, oid, community string and snmp version as inputs from user...

Regards,

N.Anantha Subramaniam

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_{Monday, March 11, 2013 4:35 AM}

Hi Cor,

As I know only VB, could you guide me which language to choose and how to write a simple snmp get module using that??

Regards,

N.Anantha Subramaniam