I am trying to send a very basic SNMP Get request to a client using Go. I have an SNMP message for getting the OID 1.3.6.1.2.1.1
that I manually encoded into a byte slice according to this post as well as soniah/gosnmp
. I am able to write the message to a host but am unable to read a response (or am not receiving a response). The program hangs when reading from the net.Conn
. Does that mean there was no response at all? Or that the SNMP message I am trying to send is incorrect?
Here is my code:
package main
import (
"fmt"
"io/ioutil"
"log"
"net"
"time"
)
func main() {
conn, err := net.DialTimeout("udp", "host:161", 5*time.Second)
if err != nil {
log.Fatal(err)
}
defer conn.Close()
fmt.Println(conn.RemoteAddr())
var snmpMsg []byte
// Type: Sequence, Length: 37
msg := []byte{0x30, 0x25}
snmpMsg = append(snmpMsg, msg...)
// Type: Integer, Len: 1, Val: 1 (SNMP Version 2c)
version := []byte{0x02, 0x01, 0x1}
snmpMsg = append(snmpMsg, version...)
// Type: Octet String, Len: 7, Val: "private"
community := []byte{0x04, 0x07, 0x70, 0x72, 0x69, 0x76, 0x61, 0x74, 0x65}
snmpMsg = append(snmpMsg, community...)
// Type: GetRequest, Len: 23
pdu := []byte{0xa0, 0x17}
snmpMsg = append(snmpMsg, pdu...)
// Type: Integer, Len: 1, Val: 1 (Is the RequestID value supposed to be something specific?)
requestID := []byte{0x02, 0x01, 0x01}
snmpMsg = append(snmpMsg, requestID...)
// Type: Integer, Len: 1, Val: 0
errStatus := []byte{0x02, 0x01, 0x00}
snmpMsg = append(snmpMsg, errStatus...)
// Type: Integer, Len: 1, Val: 0
errIndex := []byte{0x02, 0x01, 0x00}
snmpMsg = append(snmpMsg, errIndex...)
// Type: Sequence, Len: 12
varBindList := []byte{0x30, 0x0c}
snmpMsg = append(snmpMsg, varBindList...)
// Type: Sequence, Len: 10
varBind := []byte{0x30, 0x0a}
snmpMsg = append(snmpMsg, varBind...)
// Type: Object Identifier, Len: 6, Val: 1.3.6.1.2.1.1
oid := []byte{0x06, 0x07, 0x2b, 0x06, 0x01, 0x02, 0x01, 0x01}
snmpMsg = append(snmpMsg, oid...)
// Type: Null, Len: 0
value := []byte{0x05, 0x00}
snmpMsg = append(snmpMsg, value...)
n, err := conn.Write(snmpMsg)
if err != nil {
log.Fatal(err)
}
fmt.Printf("Message size: %d, Bytes written: %d
", len(snmpMsg), n)
// Program hangs here; does the same with `conn.Read()`.
b, err := ioutil.ReadAll(conn)
if err != nil {
log.Fatal(err)
}
fmt.Println(string(b))
}
I don't need to decode the response yet, I'm more concerned with just getting and reading a response. Any suggestions?
If you can run Wireshark to listen on the network for your request and anticipated response, that should clear things up for you I think.
If your request is malformed, you should see Wireshark complaining about that. If your SNMP agent does not respond for one reason or the other - you won't see the response on the wire.
In some settings response may come from/to different IP address - that may be a cause of the time out. And wrong community name can be another reason.
In addition to Ilya's answer, if the SNMP agent has decent diagnostics, it might give you a reason why it's not answering.
If it does not, then test with a decent agent first to get the initial problems out of the way.