TRAP/INFORM notification#

pysnmp.hlapi.sendNotification(snmpEngine: SnmpEngine, authData: pysnmp.hlapi.auth.CommunityData | pysnmp.hlapi.auth.UsmUserData, transportTarget: AbstractTransportTarget, contextData: ContextData, notifyType, varBinds, **options) → tuple[pysnmp.proto.errind.ErrorIndication, pysnmp.proto.rfc1902.Integer32 | int, pysnmp.proto.rfc1902.Integer32 | int, tuple[pysnmp.smi.rfc1902.ObjectType]]#

Creates a generator to send one or more SNMP notifications.

On each iteration, new SNMP TRAP or INFORM notification is send (RFC 1905#section-4,2,6). The iterator blocks waiting for INFORM acknowledgement to arrive or error to occur.

Parameters:

  • snmpEngine (SnmpEngine) – Class instance representing SNMP engine.

  • authData (CommunityData or UsmUserData) – Class instance representing SNMP credentials.

  • transportTarget (UdpTransportTarget or Udp6TransportTarget) – Class instance representing transport type along with SNMP peer address.

  • contextData (ContextData) – Class instance representing SNMP ContextEngineId and ContextName values.

  • notifyType (str) – Indicates type of notification to be sent. Recognized literal values are trap or inform.

  • varBinds (tuple) – Single NotificationType class instance representing a minimum sequence of MIB variables required for particular notification type. Alternatively, a sequence of ObjectType objects could be passed instead. In the latter case it is up to the user to ensure proper Notification PDU contents.

Other Parameters:

**options –

Request options:

  • lookupMib - load MIB and resolve response MIB variables at the cost of slightly reduced performance. Default is True.

Yields:

  • errorIndication (str) – True value indicates SNMP engine error.

  • errorStatus (str) – True value indicates SNMP PDU error.

  • errorIndex (int) – Non-zero value refers to varBinds[errorIndex-1]

  • varBinds (tuple) – A sequence of ObjectType class instances representing MIB variables returned in SNMP response.

Raises:

PySnmpError – Or its derivative indicating that an error occurred while performing SNMP operation.

Notes

The sendNotification generator will be exhausted immidiately unless an instance of NotificationType class or a sequence of ObjectType varBinds are send back into running generator (supported since Python 2.6).

Examples

>>> from pysnmp.hlapi import *
>>> g = sendNotification(SnmpEngine(),
...                      CommunityData('public'),
...                      UdpTransportTarget(('demo.pysnmp.com', 162)),
...                      ContextData(),
...                      'trap',
...                      NotificationType(ObjectIdentity('IF-MIB', 'linkDown')))
>>> g
(None, 0, 0, [])
>>>