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Send crafted TRAP PDU

Initialize TRAP PDU and pass it over to unified SNMPv3 message processing framework for further treatment.

• SNMPv2c
• with community name ‘public’
• over IPv4/UDP
• send TRAP notification
• initialize TRAP PDU with the following var-binds: 1.3.6.1.2.1.1.3.0 = 123 1.3.6.1.6.3.1.1.4.1.0 = 1.3.6.1.6.3.1.1.5.1

Functionally similar to:

$ snmptrap -v2c -c public demo.snmplabs.com 0 1.3.6.1.6.3.1.1.5.1

from pysnmp.entity import engine, config
from pysnmp.carrier.asyncore.dgram import udp
from pysnmp.entity.rfc3413 import ntforg
from pysnmp.proto.api import v2c

# Create SNMP engine instance
snmpEngine = engine.SnmpEngine()

# SecurityName <-> CommunityName mapping
config.addV1System(snmpEngine, 'my-area', 'public')

# Specify security settings per SecurityName (SNMPv2c -> 1)
config.addTargetParams(snmpEngine, 'my-creds', 'my-area', 'noAuthNoPriv', 1)

# Setup transport endpoint and bind it with security settings yielding
# a target name
config.addTransport(
    snmpEngine,
    udp.DOMAIN_NAME,
    udp.UdpSocketTransport().openClientMode()
)

# Create named target
config.addTargetAddr(
    snmpEngine, 'my-nms',
    udp.DOMAIN_NAME, ('104.236.166.95', 162),
    'my-creds'
)

# *** SNMP engine configuration is complete by this line ***

# Create SNMP v2c TRAP PDU with defaults
trapPDU = v2c.TrapPDU()
v2c.apiTrapPDU.setDefaults(trapPDU)

# Set custom var-binds to TRAP PDU
v2c.apiTrapPDU.setVarBinds(
    trapPDU, [
        # sysUpTime
        (v2c.ObjectIdentifier('1.3.6.1.2.1.1.3.0'), v2c.TimeTicks(123)),
        # snmpTrapPDU
        ((1, 3, 6, 1, 6, 3, 1, 1, 4, 1, 0), v2c.ObjectIdentifier((1, 3, 6, 1, 6, 3, 1, 1, 5, 1)))
    ]
)

# Create Notification Originator App instance. 
ntfOrg = ntforg.NotificationOriginator()


# Error/confirmation receiver
# noinspection PyUnusedLocal,PyUnusedLocal,PyUnusedLocal,PyUnusedLocal,PyUnusedLocal
def cbFun(snmpEngine, sendRequestHandle, errorIndication,
          errorStatus, errorIndex, varBinds, cbCtx):
    print('Notification %s, status - %s' % (
        sendRequestHandle, errorIndication and errorIndication or 'delivered'
    )
          )


# Build and submit notification message to dispatcher
ntfOrg.sendPdu(
    snmpEngine,
    # Notification targets
    'my-nms',  # target address
    None, '',  # contextEngineId, contextName
    trapPDU,
    cbFun
)

print('Notification is scheduled to be sent')

# Run I/O dispatcher which would send pending message and process response
snmpEngine.transportDispatcher.runDispatcher()

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See also: library reference.