Generating Smarts mibwalks on devices

Products

• VMware Smart Assurance
• Network Observability

Issue/Introduction

Smarts mibwalk utility to create a SNMP walk of a device

Environment

All Supported Smarts releases

Resolution

Run the following command to perform a mibwalk using the Smarts mibwalk utility located in the IP bin directory:

<basedir>/IP/smarts/bin/sm_snmpwalk <host_or_IP_of_device> 

The above command assumes that the device's read community string is "public".  If the read community string is something other than "public", you can use the following command:

<basedir>/IP/smarts/bin/sm_snmpwalk -c <community_string> <host_or_IP_of_device>

Command to be used for SNMP V3 devices:

<BASEDIR>/IP/smarts/bin/sm_snmpwalk --snmp=<version> --user=<userName>  --auth=<auth protocol>  --priv=<priv protocol>  --authPass=<password>  --privPass=<password>  <hostname>  

SNMP v3 devices with no bulk:

<BASEDIR>/IP/smarts/bin/sm_snmpwalk --snmp=<version> --auth=<auth protocol> --priv=<priv protocol> --authPass=<password> --privPass=<password> --user=<userName> hostname --noBulk

Three output files will be generated with an extension of .mimic, .snap and .walk.
Ensure that the .walk files end with "End of Mibwalk" to ensure the validity and completeness of the walk files.

Additional Information

Review Discovery Design Checklist to prepare for SNMPWalk and Discovery of devices on Smarts

Support for Authentication protocol SHA512 support for SNMPv3 discovery and monitoring has been added from Smarts 24.3.10 release