I'm not a strong programmer so I'm not sure if I'm just doing this wrong or there is a difference in Windows Server 2008 R2 vs Win7 but I can't get an add-type to work.

The type is from http://sharpsnmplib.codeplex.com where I'm trying to make use of the snmpget function using code like this:

Add-Type -Path "C:\SNMP\sharpsnmplib.dll"
Add-Type -Path "C:\SNMP\SharpSnmpLib.Controls.dll"
snmpget -v 1 -c public $hostname $oidstring

It works fine on my windows 7 64 bit workstation but on a windows server 2008 R2 server it throws an error stating it doesn't know what "snmpget" is, meaning it didn't add the type properly.

I set execution policy and tried it on 64bit and 32bit powershell and no joy.

Any ideas?

thanks

Pete

Can you try:
PS>./snmpget -v 1 -c public $hostname $oidstring

The zip actually provides an .exe for you to use. There's likely actually no need for you to use Add-Type at all to load the .NET libraries using this method.

Thanks Marco- I guess I should have tried that as an even simpler implementation. I'd still like to know why the add-type didn't work (or rather how to debug why it didn't work) but this definitely solves the greater problem.

I also found that I had inititally some trouble with invoking the snmpget.exe from within powershell but I figured it out- I had to separate the arguements (which contained hyphens) using quotes and then I was able to get it to work. snmpget.exe "-v 1" "10.2.60.215" $OIDstring

Thanks again!

Pete