PROMETHEUS-SNMP-GENERATOR(1)

💖 PROMETHEUS-SNMP-GENERATOR 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the prometheus-snmp-generator manual page (that's the man page for the one and only Prometheus tooling, iykyk). This little icon is literally the config generator for prometheus-snmp-exporter ✨ Like. It makes the config. For the snmp exporter. That's the whole vibe. 🎀

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🌈 SYNOPSIS 🌈

prometheus-snmp-generator [<flags>] <command> [<args> ...]

so it's flags first, then a command, then whatever args that command wants. simple. iconic. 💅

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

ngl the original page just. has nothing here. empty. a void. ghost town 💀 so we're not gonna invent lore — the DESCRIPTION section stays a mystery, and honestly? slay. moving on, periodt.

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

these are the top-level flags, and yes they go before your command. manifesting that you read all of them 🫶

• -h, --help — shows you help that's context-sensitive, meaning it knows where you are and what you're doing. also lowkey try --help-long and --help-man if you want the extended director's cut 👑
• --fail-on-parse-errors — makes the program exit with a non-zero status if there are MIB parsing errors. so like, if the MIBs are messy, this flag says "we're not doing this today" and bails 😤
• --snmp.mibopts — toggles a bunch of defaults that control MIB parsing. for the deets, go peek at snmpwalk --help. it's giving "read the other manual, bestie" 📖
• -m, --mibs-dir= — the paths to your mibs directory 🗂️
• --log.level=info — only logs messages at this severity or above. one of: [debug, info, warn, error]. default is info so it's chill by default 🍓
• --log.format=logfmt — the output format of log messages. one of: [logfmt, json]. default is logfmt 🌸

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👑 COMMANDS 👑

help [<command>...]

shows help. that's it. that's the command. sometimes you just need a little help, and that's valid 💜

generate [<flags>]

the main character command fr fr — it generates snmp.yml from generator.yml 🌟

• -g, --generator-path="generator.yml" — the path to the input generator.yml file. default: generator.yml 🎀
• -o, --output-path="snmp.yml" — the path where the snmp_exporter's config file gets written. default: snmp.yml ✨

parse_errors

debug mode activate 🐛 — prints the parse errors that NetSNMP spits out.

dump

also debug vibes 🔍 — dumps the parsed and prepared MIBs so you can see the whole thing.

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reminder that parse_errors and dump are literally labeled Debug in the original. they're the backstage passes, not the main show. no cap 💀

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and that's the whole page, bestie 💖 this was prometheus-snmp-exporter version 0.30.1, dated June 2026 — go forth, generate those configs, and stay slaying 🌈💅🫶