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wilcdr
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Oct 18, 2016

Making SNMP queries in iRules

From other questions people have asked, it looks like there is no built-in command for SNMP queries that you can make from iRules. Is that still true (running LTM 11.6)?   If that is not possible...
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  • Kai_Wilke's avatar
    Kai_Wilke
    Feb 08, 2023

    Running an periodic iCall Job in the Config-Plane to query SNMP and write results to a DG would be a much easier and elegant alternative. No? Dealing with ASN1-BER in iRules isn't much fun... 🙂

    Cheers, Kai

    LiefZimmerman : Good to see that the ordering in DevCentral has finally been changed, so that we can see if something gets added to rather old questions. Thanks!

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wilcdr
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Oct 18, 2016

The use case for us is that we would like to query some snmp values from a device (not a server within the pool but some other device) when a request is incoming to a vip and use an irule to then do custom routing and logic based on the response from the snmp queries.

 

I have never looked into iRulesLX but will do that or will just use the binary format and scan stuff.

 

Built in support for snmp queries into iRules would be nice though. :)

 

Thanks!