Visual Basic 5.x/6.x SNMP Sample Source Code

ActiveSocket provides an easy-to-use development interface to a variety of IP protocols. By using ActiveSocket, you can very easily create or enhance applications with network features.

ActiveSocket features the following: ICMP, TCP, UDP, HTTP and HTTPs with support for proxy servers and secure web sites, DNS, Telnet, NTP time protocol, SSH Secure Shell, RSH remote shell script interface, SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol), SNMP Traps, SNMP MIB Browser, Sockets, WOL (Wake-On-LAN), IP-to-Country and more.

SNMP MIB Browsing can be well integrated into Visual Basic environments.
This document describes how ActiveSocket's SNMP MIB Browser can be integrated into Visual Basic projects.

A management information base (MIB) is a database used to manage the devices in a communications network. The database is hierarchical (tree-structured) and entries are addressed through object identifiers (OID's). A MIB should contain information on these commands and on the target objects (controllable entities or potential sources of status information) with a view to tuning the network transport to the current needs. Each type of object in a MIB database has a name, a syntax, and an encoding. The name is represented uniquely as an OID. An OID is an administratively assigned name. The administrative policies used for assigning names are discussed later in this memo.

Use ActiveSocket's 'SnmpMibBrowser' object to load a MIB database into memory and iterate over all objects and view all properties.

Step 1: Download and install the ActiveSocket Toolkit

Download the ActiveSocket Toolkit from the ActiveXperts Download Site and start the installation. The installation guides you through the installation process.

Step 2: Create a new Visual Basic project

Launch 'Microsoft Visual Basic' from the Start menu, and choose 'New' from the 'File Menu'. The 'New Project' dialog appears.
Select 'Standard Exe' and click 'OK':

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Step 3: Refer to the ActiveSocket Library and create the objects

A new Project is created, with a blank form.

First, you must add a reference to ActiveSocket in the project to be able to use the object. To do so, choose 'References...' from the 'Project' menu. In the 'References' dialog that pops up, enable the 'ActiveSocket Type Library' reference as shown in the following picture:

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Click 'OK' to close the 'References...' dialog.

Then, select the Project form and choose 'View Code' from the context menu:

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On top of your code, declare the following object:

   Public objSnmpMib As SnmpMibBrowser

Step 4: Create the object

From the Code window, select 'Form'. The Private Sub 'Form_Load()' will be displayed now.
In the 'Form Load' function, create the object in the following way:

   Set objSnmpMib = CreateObject("ActiveXperts.SnmpMibBrowser")

You can download the complete sample on our ftp site ftp.activexperts-labs.com/samples/asocket.
There are many other working ActiveSocket scripts on our site and shipped with the product.

The ActiveSocket tool is a Network Communications ActiveX software component (SDK). This control supports SNMP, SMTP, POP3, Telnet, TCP, NTP, RSH, HTTP, HTTPs, FTP, DNS, ICMP and more, and can be used by any Windows development platform, including Visual Basic .NET, Visual CSharp .NET, ASP .NET (VB,CS), ASP, Visual Basic, Visual Studio/Visual C++, Delphi, PHP, ColdFusion, HTML, VBScript and any other ActiveX/COM compliant platform. The ActiveSocket Toolkit is an ActiveXperts Software B.V. Product.