[proposal] Introducing the `ansible.snmp` collection

[NilashishC]

Summary

The proposal is to add an Ansible collection for vendor agnostic plugins that allows interacting with SNMP-enabled devices for querying and setting values.

The initial work has already been added to this repository. Please have a look at the README for more details.

Available Plugins

Connection Plugins

• ansible.snmp.v1
• ansible.snmp.v2c
• ansible.snmp.v3usm
• ansible.snmp.v3tls (TO-DO)

Modules

• ansible.snmp.get
• ansible.snmp.walk
• ansible.snmp.set

Dependency

This collection leverages the netsnmp package and it's corresponding Python bindings net-snmp-python. Steps to install and setup have been explained in this section of the README.

A sample playbook and inventory file has been added in https://github.com/ansible-network/ansible.snmp/tree/main/playbooks.