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M4200 get status information via python
Hi All, I know there are many ways to retrieve status information from the (M4200) switch. These work fine, but are very "manual". What I really like to achieve is to get some basic status inform...
Serial console won't scale and is likely even less reliably than parsing the CLI using i.e. as you mentioned netmiko.
I can only imagine SNMP being the best route to success. Yes OID searching is not a lot of fun. Best is to get the MIBs matching the firmware you are currently running on the M4200, then do a SNMP walk with net-snmp while loading all MIBs from Netgear as well. Depending on your environment this is sometimes different. Debian for example doesn't ship public MIBs due to licensing concerns but are easily downloaded.
Most relevant parts should be found in the private OID, usually there are MIBs with box-something in them like boxservices.my in many managed switches. This one for example usually reveals the OIDs for things like fans and power supplies for example. It is going to be helpful to learn how to convert from an MIB to an OID using i.e. Net-SNMP (you can google that command)
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