PySNMP Thread unsafe?

[rob.audenaerde]

I'm trying to monitor about 250 devices with SNMP, using PySNMP version
4. I use the threading.Thread to create a threadpool of 10 threads, so
devices not responding won't slow down the monitoring process too much.


Here comes my problem. When using PySNMP single threaded, every this
goes well; but if I create 10 threads, it all goes awry... It seems
PySNMP is not thread safe? Can anyone elaborate on this?

 

[Chris Lambacher]

I'm trying to monitor about 250 devices with SNMP, using PySNMP version
4. I use the threading.Thread to create a threadpool of 10 threads, so
devices not responding won't slow down the monitoring process too much.


Here comes my problem. When using PySNMP single threaded, every this
goes well; but if I create 10 threads, it all goes awry... It seems
PySNMP is not thread safe? Can anyone elaborate on this?

What does 'goes awry' mean? Your statement is too vague to be able to help
you figure out your problem.

 

[etingof]

pysnmp has been designed to be MT-safe. Although, I've never used it in
a MT app, so there may be a bug showing up when you do threading...

At its simplest, I'd advise snooping on the wire to make sure you are
querying different devices at the same time and also to see where the
[I assume] bottleneck really is -- is it in a sending or receiving
phase of the query.

If you could show me the code that causes the trouble?

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[Nick Craig-Wood]

I'm trying to monitor about 250 devices with SNMP, using PySNMP version
4. I use the threading.Thread to create a threadpool of 10 threads, so
devices not responding won't slow down the monitoring process too
much.

This is surely a job for twisted not threads? You'd be able to poll
all 250 devices at once with twisted...

This might be helpful (haven't tried it myself though)

http://twistedsnmp.sourceforge.net/