snmp-exporter SKILL.md skillA
snmp-exporter from air-gapped/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add air-gapped/skills/snmp-exporter@git:20261019.5908ddaPins git:20261019.5908dda in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- air-gapped/skills
- Path
.claude/skills/snmp-exporter/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 8
- Latest version
- git:20261019.0af4652, committed Oct 19, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 23, 2026
- Size
- 14,012 bytes
- Repository stars
- 6
- License
- MIT
Best practices for Prometheus snmp_exporter (v0.30.x): writing generator.yml modules, curating MIB walks, SNMPv2c/v3 auth, timeout tuning, Kubernetes deployment (Probe/ScrapeConfig CRDs, secrets, UDP egress), local docker testing, and debugging failed scrapes. Includes worked device references for Dell iDRAC 9/10, Cisco CBS250/350 (+ Catalyst 1200/1300), and NVIDIA/Mellanox Onyx switches.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# snmp_exporter best practices snmp_exporter is a **multi-target proxy**: one central instance walks SNMP on many devices; Prometheus tells it what to scrape per request via URL params (`/snmp?target=<ip>&module=<m1,m2>&auth=<name>`). Everything below assumes v0.30.x. The generator and exporter versions **must match** — a config generated by a different version can fail to load. Pin both in CI. This skill ends where the metrics land in Prometheus. Querying them, writing the PromQL, and building the dashboards or alerts on top belong to the **`prometheus-mimir-grafana`** skill (same `observability` plugin); shipping them to long-term storage is **`mimir-upgrade`** territory. ## Golden rules 1. **Never walk a whole vendor enterprise subtree.** Full-tree walks are the #1 cause of multi-minute scrapes, device-CPU exhaustion, and even crashed SNMP agents (Cisco documents the CPU load on CBS; iDRAC full walks take 2–5 min; a wedged Onyx mgmtd leaves the switch unmanageable). Walk the specific tables worth alerting on — a curated module is typically 10–100× smaller. Measured here: Cisco CBS full-tree = 4034 metrics vs curated = 63. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add air-gapped/skills/snmp-exporter@sha256:4d3353cb0a7377b3The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261019.5908dda, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_igekut7eds2p77gp)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 8 versions of this file, between Jul 23, 2026 and Oct 19, 2026, about one every 13 days.
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| git:20261019.0af4652 latest | 2026-10-19 | 0af4652 | 14,012 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261019.5315486 | 2026-10-19 | 5315486 | 13,637 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261019.5908dda | 2026-10-19 | 5908dda | 13,412 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261019.5f81937 | 2026-10-19 | 5f81937 | 13,303 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261019.e8ce2ab | 2026-10-19 | e8ce2ab | 13,775 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260915.86af833 | 2026-09-15 | 86af833 | 13,437 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260725.aef8f18 | 2026-07-25 | aef8f18 | 13,403 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260723.0299fed | 2026-07-23 | 0299fed | 13,117 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (14012 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
air-gapped/skills · 6 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-04 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_igekut7eds2p77gp GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=air-gapped/skills/snmp-exporter GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/4d3353cb0a7377b3decfc46f8471625e6b8bf5217171774442aede1a8d660ab2
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Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.