SNMP Integration Plugin

• Plugin version: v4.0.5
• Released on: 2025-01-06
• Changelog

For other versions, see the Versioned plugin docs.

For questions about the plugin, open a topic in the Discuss forums. For bugs or feature requests, open an issue in Github. For the list of Elastic supported plugins, please consult the Elastic Support Matrix.

The SNMP integration plugin includes:

• SNMP input plugin
• Snmptrap input plugin

The new logstash-integration-snmp plugin combines the logstash-input-snmp and logstash-input-snmptrap plugins into one integrated plugin that encompasses the capabilities of both. This integrated plugin package provides better alignment in snmp processing, better resource management, easier package maintenance, and a smaller installation footprint.

In this section, we’ll cover:

• Migrating to logstash-integration-snmp from individual plugins
• Importing MIBs

You’ll retain and expand the functionality of existing stand-alone plugins, but in a more compact, integrated package. In this section, we’ll note mapping and behavioral changes, and explain how to preserve current behavior if needed.

As a component of the new logstash-integration-snmp plugin, the logstash-input-snmp plugin offers the same capabilities as the stand-alone logstash-input-snmp.

You might need to address some behavior changes depending on the use-case and how the ingested data is being handled through the pipeline.

• No such instance errors are mapped as error: no such instance currently exists at this OID string instead of noSuchInstance.
• No such object errors are mapped as error: no such object currently exists at this OID string instead of noSuchObject.
• End of MIB view errors are mapped as error: end of MIB view instead of endOfMibView.
• An unknown variable type falls back to the string representation instead of logging an error as it did in with the stand-alone logstash-input-snmp. This change should not affect existing pipelines, unless they have custom error handlers that rely on specific error messages.

As a component of the new logstash-integration-snmp plugin, the logstash-input-snmptrap plugin offers almost the same capabilities as the stand-alone logstash-input-snmp plugin.

You might need to address some behavior changes depending on your use case and how the ingested data is being handled through the pipeline.

• The PDU variable bindings are mapped into the Logstash event using the defined data type. By default, the stand-alone logstash-input-snmptrap plugin converts all of the data to string, ignoring the original type. If this behavior is not what you want, you can use a filter to retain the original type.

• SNMP TimeTicks variables are mapped as Long timestamps instead of formatted date string (%d days, %02d:%02d:%02d.%02d).

• null variables values are mapped using the string null instead of Null (upper-case N).

• No such instance errors are mapped as error: no such instance currently exists at this OID string instead of noSuchInstance.

• No such object errors are mapped as error: no such object currently exists at this OID string instead of noSuchObject.

• End of MIB view errors are mapped as error: end of MIB view instead of endOfMibView.

• The previous generation (stand-alone) input-snmptrap plugin formatted the message field as a ruby-snmp SNMP::SNMPv1_Trap object representation.

  <SNMP::SNMPv1_Trap:0x6f1a7a4 @varbind_list=[#<SNMP::VarBind:0x2d7bcd8f @value="teststring", @name=[1.11.12.13.14.15]>], @timestamp=#<SNMP::TimeTicks:0x1af47e9d @value=55>, @generic_trap=6,  @enterprise=[1.2.3.4.5.6], @source_ip="127.0.0.1", @agent_addr=#<SNMP::IpAddress:0x29a4833e @value="test">, @specific_trap=99>
  

  The new integrated input-snmptrap plugin uses JSON to format message field.

  {"error_index":0, "variable_bindings":{"1.3.6.1.6.3.1.1.4.1.0":"SNMPv2-MIB::coldStart", "1.3.6.1.2.1.1.3.0":0}, "error_status":0, "type":"TRAP", "error_status_text":"Success", "community":"public", "version":"2c", "request_id":1436216872}
  

If needed, you can configure the new logstash-integration-snmp plugin to maintain maximum compatibility with the previous (stand-alone) version of the input-snmp plugin.

input {
   snmptrap {
    use_provided_mibs => false
    oid_mapping_format => 'ruby_snmp'
    oid_map_field_values => true
   }
}

The SNMP plugins already include the IETF MIBs (management information bases) and these do not need to be imported. To disable the bundled MIBs set the use_provided_mibs option to false.

Any other MIB will need to be manually imported to provide mapping of the numeric OIDs to MIB field names in the resulting event.

To import a MIB, the OSS libsmi library is required. libsmi is available and installable on most operating systems.

To import a MIB, you need to first convert the ASN.1 MIB file into a .dic file using the libsmi smidump command line utility.

Example (using RFC1213-MIB file)

$ smidump --level=1 -k -f python RFC1213-MIB > RFC1213-MIB.dic

Note that the resulting file as output by smidump must have the .dic extension.

The smidump function looks for MIB dependencies in its pre-configured paths list. To avoid the failed to locate MIB module error, you may need to provide the MIBs locations in your particular environment.

The recommended ways to provide the additional path configuration are:

• an environment variable, or
• a config file to provide the additional path configuration.

See the "MODULE LOCATIONS" section of the smi_config documentation for more information.

Set the SMIPATH env var with the path to your MIBs. Be sure to include a prepended colon (:) for the path.

$ SMIPATH=":/path/to/mibs/" smidump -k -f python CISCO-PROCESS-MIB.mib > CISCO-PROCESS-MIB_my.dic 1

1. Notice the colon that precedes the path definition.

The other approach is to create a configuration file with the path option. For example, you could create a file called smi.conf:

path :/path/to/mibs/

And use the config with smidump:

$ smidump -c smi.conf -k -f python CISCO-PROCESS-MIB.mib > CISCO-PROCESS-MIB_my.dic