OID(3)

🦋 NAME 🦋

NetSNMP::OID — okay so bestie, this is the Perl extension for manipulating OIDs. That's it, that's the whole vibe. 💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

Here's the whole mood board, copied exactly so you can just steal it:

  use NetSNMP::OID;

  my $oid = new NetSNMP::OID('sysContact.0');

  if ($oid < new NetSNMP::OID('ifTable')) {
      do_something();
  }

  my @numarray = $oid->to_array();

  # appending oids
  $oid = new NetSNMP::OID('.1.3');
  $oid += ".6.1";
  # -> .1.3.6.1

  # appending index strings

  $oid2 = $oid + "\"wes\"";
  # -> .1.3.6.1.3.119.101.115

  $oid3 = $oid + "\'wes\'";
  # -> .1.3.6.1.119.101.115

  $len = $oid3->length();
  # -> 7

  # retrieving indexes from an oid:
  $arrayref = $tableoid->get_indexes()

Like, notice how the quoted string gets its quote characters baked in as numbers and the unquoted one doesn't? That's not a bug, that's just how it do. 🫶

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

The NetSNMP::OID module is a simple little wrapper around a C-based net-snmp oid — and that oid is literally just an array of unsigned integers. Under the hood the OID is stored as a C array of integers, because speed when you're doing comparisons and stuff. Efficiency queen. 👑

The standard logical expression operators (<, >, ==, ...) are overloaded so you can do lexographical comparisons with them. So yes, your OID can vibe-check another OID directly. 🔥

The + operator is also overloaded, so you can append stuff onto the end of an OID — like index segments of a table, for example. Sticker on the end of the OID, basically. 🎀

🌈 EXPORT 🌈

Here's what actually gets exported:

int snmp_oid_compare(oid1, oid2)
int compare(oid1, oid2)

Two functions, both taking oid1 and oid2. Short and sweet, no notes. ✨

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💜 AUTHOR 💜

Wes Hardaker, <hardaker@users.sourceforge.net> — icon, legend, the moment. Respect the author fr fr. 🙌

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• SNMP
• perl

Go read those too, iykyk. 📚

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🎀 Copyright 🎀

Copyright (c) 2002 Networks Associates Technology, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. So like, go off, but read the terms first bestie. 💖

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