Change zSnmpCommunity for multiple devices

setSnmpCommunity.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
#
# Author:               Jane Curry
# Date                  October 30th 2012
# Description:          Sets local zSnmpCommunity property to NewSnmpCom
# Updates:              
#
import sys
from optparse import OptionParser
import Globals
import time
from Products.ZenUtils.ZenScriptBase import ZenScriptBase
from transaction import commit

of = open('/home/zenoss/zSnmpCommunityChange.out', 'w')
localtime = time.asctime( time.localtime(time.time()) )
of.write(localtime + "\n\n")
# Need noopts=True or it barfs with the script options
dmd = ZenScriptBase(connect=True, noopts=True).dmd

zSnmpCom = 'NewSnmpCom'
for dev in dmd.Devices.getSubDevices():
   # You can put in various tests here ......
   if dev.manageIp.startswith('192.168'):
     # Test for a specific device - for testing
     #if dev.id == 'group-100-r3.class.example.org':

       # do NOT use the following line ( dev.zSnmpCommunity = zSnmpCom ) to set a local property
       #   as it bypasses the aquisition chain and you end up with "half" a local property such
       #   that Configuration Properyties does not see the change, the deleteZenProperty method
       #   cannot find the property but the new community IS used by SNMP methods - Disaster!
       #dev.zSnmpCommunity = zSnmpCom
       dev.setZenProperty('zSnmpCommunity', zSnmpCom )
       of.write('Device %s has zSnmpCommunity local property set to %s \n' % (dev.id, dev.zSnmpCommunity))
       print 'Device %s has zSnmpCommunity local property set to %s \n' % (dev.id, dev.zSnmpCommunity)
       commit()
of.close()