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Why do we need to use both partialSNMP and multipleGetBulk options together?

Solved234 views7th May 2025generic SNMP partialSNMP
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Jason Wan [SLC] [DevOps Advocate]230 7th May 2025 0 Comments

Hi All,

I have some questions regarding the use of partialSNMP and multipleGetBulk options in SNMP table polling.

According to the documentation:

  • The partialSNMP option is described as: “When polling large SNMP tables, you can use the partialSNMP:x option to fetch only ‘x’ rows at a time.”

  • The multipleGetBulk option is described as: “Gets the table contents, retrieving multiple rows at once.”

I’ve seen configurations using instance;partialSNMP:X;multipleGetBulk:X, and I’m wondering why both options are needed, as they seem to perform similar functions.

Thanks!

Jason Wan [SLC] [DevOps Advocate] Selected answer as best 7th May 2025

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Laurens Moutton [SLC] [DevOps Enabler]8.84K Posted 7th May 2025 2 Comments

Hi,

-multipleGetBulk is the option that determines the way that the communication with the device is happening. E.g. multipleGetBulk:5 means that we are asking the device to return (max) 5 rows per request.

-partialSNMP is the option that determines when we should pause fetching the table data in between. This is used when a large table needs to be polled. E.g. when it takes a long time to poll a table then it means that it is not possible to do something else in between, e.g. perform an SNMP set, start a QAction when clicking a button,… as the SLProtocol thread is “frozen” and waiting on the result from SLSNMPManager. This will even generate an RTE when it is taking more than 15 minutes. By having a pause in between, there is room for something else prior to be handled.

With the combination of partialSNMP:1000;multipleGetBulk:5 means that the SLSNMPManager process is going to request data per 5 rows to the device. Once there are 1000 rows collected (or end of the table), it will return back to the SLProtocol process which will then determine to first execute something else or will signal back to SLSNMPManager that it can continue to fetch the next 1000 rows of the table.

Regards,

Laurens Moutton [SLC] [DevOps Enabler] Posted new comment 15th May 2025
Jens Vandewalle [SLC] [DevOps Enabler] commented 15th May 2025

Does this also works in combination with other snmpGet methods (GetNext, GetBulk, MultipleGetNext)?

Laurens Moutton [SLC] [DevOps Enabler] commented 15th May 2025

That also works for other snmp methods, see documentation here: https://docs.dataminer.services/develop/schemadoc/Protocol/Protocol.Params.Param.SNMP.OID-options.html#partialsnmp . The documentation currently mentions that the value of the multipleGetBulk is ignored when partialSnmp is defined, e.g. partialSNMP:12;multipleGetBulk:5 means that a multipleGetNext request of 12 will be executed and that result is returned. That is indeed the case when looking at the code. This will be modified in a future release so that the value of multipleGetBulk will be taken into account to make it possible to control the size of the packets requested to the device and after how many rows SLSNMPManager should return the intermediate result back to SLProtocol.

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Arunkrishna Shreeder [SLC] [DevOps Advocate]4.03K Posted 7th May 2025 0 Comments

Hi Jason,

I believe multipleGetBulk is focused more on performance; as in how many rows are fetched per GetBulk request.

partialSNMP’s focus is on reliability; as in even if one GetBulk fails or returns incomplete data, you tell it to keep going on – this way you might get some data instead of none.

Arunkrishna Shreeder [SLC] [DevOps Advocate] Answered question 7th May 2025
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