Re: Can you advice a Python library to query a lan subnet with SNMP and collect MAC addresses of nodes?

From	rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com>
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Subject	Re: Can you advice a Python library to query a lan subnet with SNMP and collect MAC addresses of nodes?
Date	2011-04-16 21:38 -0700
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On Apr 15, 3:22 pm, Aldo Ceccarelli <ceccarelli.a...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 15 Apr, 11:54, frankcui <frankcu...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > On 04/15/2011 05:00 PM, Aldo Ceccarelli wrote:> Hello All,
> > > in my specific problem I will be happy of a response where possible
> > > to:
>
> > > 1. distinguish different operating systems of answering nodes
> > > 2. collect responses of Wyse thin-clients with "Thin OS" to get node
> > > name and MAC address in particular
>
> > > Thanks a lot in advance for any sharing / forward to documentation,
> > > products in the area.
>
> > > KR Aldo
>
> > I think for your interest, if what you described is not a part of your
> > software you are doing but only a specific task, you could use some
> > network scanning tools like nmap to achieve your goals.
>
> > there is also a module called pysnmp and you can look into it to see if
> > it meets your need.
>
> > frank
>
> Thanks Frank! I've browsed pysnmp as you kindly adviced, now looking
> also intohttp://pynetsnmp.sourceforge.net/
> KR Aldo

This is 6-7 year old stale memory (and dont want to start a flame war
but...)
Last I looked at the snmp modules in python I vaguely remember that
the perl modules were so much more feature complete that I had to
switch to perl even though I am generally uncomfortable with perl.

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Can you advice a Python library to query a lan subnet with SNMP and collect MAC addresses of nodes? Aldo Ceccarelli <ceccarelli.aldo@gmail.com> - 2011-04-15 02:00 -0700
  Re: Can you advice a Python library to query a lan subnet with SNMP and collect MAC addresses of nodes? frankcui <frankcui24@gmail.com> - 2011-04-15 17:54 +0800
    Re: Can you advice a Python library to query a lan subnet with SNMP and collect MAC addresses of nodes? Aldo Ceccarelli <ceccarelli.aldo@gmail.com> - 2011-04-15 03:22 -0700
      Re: Can you advice a Python library to query a lan subnet with SNMP and collect MAC addresses of nodes? rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2011-04-16 21:38 -0700
  Re: Can you advice a Python library to query a lan subnet with SNMP and collect MAC addresses of nodes? Aldo Ceccarelli <ceccarelli.aldo@gmail.com> - 2011-04-18 08:23 -0700
    Re: Can you advice a Python library to query a lan subnet with SNMP and collect MAC addresses of nodes? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-04-19 05:13 +1000
    Re: Can you advice a Python library to query a lan subnet with SNMP and collect MAC addresses of nodes? Daniel Kluev <dan.kluev@gmail.com> - 2011-04-19 07:38 +1100
      Re: Can you advice a Python library to query a lan subnet with SNMP and collect MAC addresses of nodes? Aldo Ceccarelli <ceccarelli.aldo@gmail.com> - 2011-04-18 23:16 -0700

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