# SNMP support

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/snmp-support/133973>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [April 5, 2008, 10:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/snmp-support/133973 "2008-04-05T22:46:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![tekhne](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/90ced4/32.png) [@tekhne](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tekhne)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2008, 10:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/snmp-support/133973/1 "2008-04-05T22:46:01Z")

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Hello

I am the author of NetHorus, a Network Management System written in  
Ruby, using  
Rails, and originally written in PHP/perl.

There are several limitations in Ruby’s SNMP support, most notably in  
MIB  
parsing. For anything but simple single-OID GETs, this is is a  
significant  
problem. MIB files contain, amongst other things:

- Structure information about table constructs
- Syntax information for returned OIDs (units, enumerations etc.)
- Descriptions of OIDs

Is anyone working on enriching the SNMP support to include MIB  
intelligence,  
possibly using the existing libsnmp from Net-SNMP?

Peter

–  
Peter H. | e: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid | g: 0xE7C839F4 | w: [www.poggs.com](http://www.poggs.com)

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