SNMP Agent Simulator

SNMP Simulator tool can simulate many thousands of different SNMP speaking devices on a network. It is primarily being used for testing and development purposes.

The software is free, open source and immediately available to anyone for whatever purpose.

How to use SNMP Simulator

Try the fast lane if you are fluent with network management matters.

• Quick start
  • Installation
  • Run SNMP simulation
  • Test the setup
  • Simulate existing SNMP agent
  • Simulate from MIB

SNMP Simulator suite

Detailed documentation explaining the entire work flow and SNMP simulator tool set.

For larger-scale, automated deployments REST API based control plane can be used for centralized management and monitoring purposes.

• Documentation
  • Command-line options
  • Simulating SNMP Agents
  • Simulation data
  • Addressing SNMP agents
  • Simulation with variation modules
  • Building simulation data
  • Recording with variation modules
  • Tips and tricks

Source code & Changelog

Project source code is hosted at GitHub. Everyone is welcome to fork and contribute back!

We maintain a detailed log of changes:

• Changelog

Download

The easiest way to download and install SNMP simulator is to pip install the latest version from PyPI:

$ virtualenv venv
$ source venv/bin/activate
$ pip install snmpsim

Alternatively, you can download the latest release from GitHub or PyPI.

License

The SNMP Simulator software is distributed under 2-clause BSD license

• License

Development

Our development plans and new features we consider for eventual implementation are tracked on the future features page.

• Future features
  • SNMP credentials via variation modules
  • Complete SNMP table simulation
  • Render simulation data from templates
  • SNMP notifications simulation
  • Composable simulation data
  • Unordered OIDa

Contact

In case of questions or troubles using SNMP Simulator, please open up an issue at GitHub or ask at Stack Overflow . You can also try browsing the mailing list archives.