SNMP::Info::Entity.3pm

Langue: en

Version: 2009-06-12 (fedora - 01/12/10)

Section: 3 (Bibliothèques de fonctions)

NAME

SNMP::Info::Entity - SNMP Interface to data stored in ENTITY-MIB. RFC 2737

AUTHOR

Max Baker

SYNOPSIS

  # Let SNMP::Info determine the correct subclass for you. 
  my $entity = new SNMP::Info(
                           AutoSpecify => 1,
                           Debug       => 1,
                           DestHost    => 'myswitch',
                           Community   => 'public',
                           Version     => 2
                         ) 
     or die "Can't connect to DestHost.\n";
 
  my $class      = $entity->class();
  print "SNMP::Info determined this device to fall under subclass : $class\n";
 
 

DESCRIPTION

ENTITY-MIB is used by Layer 2 devices from HP, Aironet, Foundry, Cisco, and more.

See RFC 2737 for full details.

Create or use a device subclass that inherit this class. Do not use directly.

For debugging purposes you can call this class directly as you would SNMP::Info

  my $entity = new SNMP::Info::Entity (...);
 
 

Inherited Classes

none.

Required MIBs

ENTITY-MIB

MIBs can be found at ftp://ftp.cisco.com/pub/mibs/v2/v2.tar.gz

GLOBALS

none.

TABLE METHODS

These are methods that return tables of information in the form of a reference to a hash.

Entity Table

$entity->e_index()
Index

("entPhysicalIndex")

$entity->e_alias()
Human entered, not usually used.

("entPhysicalAlias")

$entity->e_class()
Stack, Module, Container, Port ...

("entPhysicalClass")

$entity->e_descr()
Human Friendly

("entPhysicalClass")

$entity->e_fwver()
("entPhysicalFirmwareRev")
$entity->e_fru()
BOOLEAN. Field Replaceable unit?

("entPhysicalFRU")

$entity->e_hwver()
("entPhysicalHardwareRev")
$entity->e_id()
This is human entered and not normally used.

("entPhysicalAssetID")

$entity->e_map()
See MIB.

("entAliasMappingIdentifier")

$entity->e_model()
Model Name of Entity.

("entPhysicalModelName")

$entity->e_name()
More computer friendly name of entity. Parse me.

("entPhysicalName")

$entity->e_parent()
0 if root.

("entPhysicalContainedIn")

$entity->e_port()
Maps Entity Table entries to the Interface Table ("IfTable") using $entity->e_map()
$entity->e_pos()
The relative position among all entities sharing the same parent.

("entPhysicalParentRelPos")

$entity->e_serial()
("entPhysicalSerialNum")
$entity->e_swver()
("entPhysicalSoftwareRev")
$entity->e_type()
This is an OID, which gets munged into the object name if the right MIB is loaded.

("entPhysicalVendorType")

$entity->e_vendor()
Vendor of Module.

("entPhysicalMfgName")