On 03/10/2018 04:19 AM, Michael Corcoran wrote:

Hi All,

Hey,

I'd like to enquire about the status of libvirt-snmp. It hasn't had any commits for a couple of years and no longer compiles against recent versions of net-snmp.

Yes, your observation is correct. libvirt-snmp is no longer maintained. The build problem you ran into is just the tip of the iceberg. The biggest problem IMO is that originally sources were generated using a script from net-snmp package. While it did the trick back then it rendered sources unmaintanable.

As I understand it, upstream net-snmp deprecated and then removed the C type "U64" as it conflicts with Perl. Fortunately this is the only issue and the patch required to get libvirt-snmp building again simply replaces the C type "U64" with the type "struct counter64" in a few places. I tried to submit a patch but was unable to configure authentication/encryption correctly for git send-email and I'm unwilling to spend more time on it. Is there any way to accept patches directly from Github (or anywhere else I can push a commit)?

Ah, let me see it that will fix the build. .. .. .. And it does. So another trick to send a patch is to attach it to an e-mail sent to the list.

My second enquiry relates to the org OID used in the LIBVIRT-MIB. It currently uses a (presumably) placeholder of 12345. I check the OID register[1] and found an entry for libvirt (see end of email). I am guessing that registration didn't go through until after libvirt-snmp maintenance stopped. I'd like to submit a patch to replace the placeholder with this org id also.

Yes, the registration did not go through. In fact it hadn't even started. Again, any patch is more than welcome. Michal