diff --git a/bitelab/__init__.py b/bitelab/__init__.py
index 5440d67..048fc72 100644
--- a/bitelab/__init__.py
+++ b/bitelab/__init__.py
@@ -83,8 +83,8 @@ async def snmpget(host, oid, type):
 
 	raise RuntimeError('unknown type: %s' % repr(type))
 
-#async def snmpset(host, oid, value):
-#	return await _snmpwrapper('set', host, oid, value=value)
+async def snmpset(host, oid, value):
+	return await _snmpwrapper('set', host, oid, value=value)
 
 class Attribute:
 	'''Base class for board attributes.  This is for both read-only
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ class Attribute:
 	async def getvalue(self): # pragma: no cover
 		raise NotImplementedError
 
-	async def setvalue(self): # pragma: no cover
+	async def setvalue(self, v): # pragma: no cover
 		raise NotImplementedError
 
 class Power(Attribute):
@@ -114,8 +114,9 @@ class SNMPPower(Power):
 		return await snmpget(self.host,
 		    'pethPsePortAdminEnable.1.%d' % self.port, 'bool')
 
-	#async def setvalue(self, v):
-	#	pass
+	async def setvalue(self, v):
+		return await snmpset(self.host,
+		    'pethPsePortAdminEnable.1.%d' % self.port, v)
 
 class BoardImpl:
 	def __init__(self, name, brdclass, options):
@@ -484,6 +485,17 @@ async def _setup_data(data):
 	await data.APIKey.objects.create(user='foo', key='thisisanapikey')
 	await data.APIKey.objects.create(user='bar', key='anotherlongapikey')
 
+def _wrap_subprocess_exec(mockobj, stdout=b'', stderr=b'', retcode=0):
+	assert isinstance(stdout, bytes)
+	assert isinstance(stderr, bytes)
+	proc = Mock()
+	proc.communicate = AsyncMock()
+	proc.communicate.return_value = (stdout, stderr)
+	proc.wait = AsyncMock()
+	proc.wait.return_value = retcode
+	proc.returncode = retcode
+	mockobj.return_value = proc
+
 # Per RFC 5737 (https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5737):
 #   The blocks 192.0.2.0/24 (TEST-NET-1), 198.51.100.0/24 (TEST-NET-2),
 #   and 203.0.113.0/24 (TEST-NET-3) are provided for use in
@@ -557,45 +569,6 @@ class TestBiteLab(unittest.IsolatedAsyncioTestCase):
 		self.assertEqual(res.json(),  { 'cora-z7s': BoardClassInfo(**{
 		    'arch': 'arm-armv7', 'clsname': 'cora-z7s', }) })
 
-	@staticmethod
-	def _wrap_subprocess_exec(mockobj, stdout=b'', stderr=b'', retcode=0):
-		assert isinstance(stdout, bytes)
-		assert isinstance(stderr, bytes)
-		proc = Mock()
-		proc.communicate = AsyncMock()
-		proc.communicate.return_value = (stdout, stderr)
-		proc.wait = AsyncMock()
-		proc.wait.return_value = retcode
-		proc.returncode = retcode
-		mockobj.return_value = proc
-
-	@patch('asyncio.create_subprocess_exec')
-	async def test_snmpwrapper(self, cse):
-		self._wrap_subprocess_exec(cse, b'false\n')
-
-		r = await snmpget('somehost', 'snmpoid', 'bool')
-
-		self.assertEqual(r, False)
-
-		cse.assert_called_with('snmpget', '-Oqv', 'somehost',
-		    'snmpoid', stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
-
-		self._wrap_subprocess_exec(cse, b'true\n')
-		r = await snmpget('somehost', 'snmpoid', 'bool')
-
-		self.assertEqual(r, True)
-
-		# that a bogus return value
-		self._wrap_subprocess_exec(cse, b'bogus\n')
-
-		# raises an error
-		with self.assertRaises(RuntimeError):
-			await snmpget('somehost', 'snmpoid', 'bool')
-
-		# that an unknown type, raises an error
-		with self.assertRaises(RuntimeError):
-			await snmpget('somehost', 'snmpoid', 'randomtype')
-
 	@patch('asyncio.create_subprocess_exec')
 	@patch('bitelab.snmpget')
 	async def test_board_reserve_release(self, sg, cse):
@@ -610,7 +583,7 @@ class TestBiteLab(unittest.IsolatedAsyncioTestCase):
 		sg.return_value = False
 
 		# that when the setup script will fail
-		self._wrap_subprocess_exec(cse, stderr=b'error', retcode=1)
+		_wrap_subprocess_exec(cse, stderr=b'error', retcode=1)
 
 		# that reserving the board
 		res = await self.client.post('/board/cora-1/reserve',
@@ -634,7 +607,7 @@ class TestBiteLab(unittest.IsolatedAsyncioTestCase):
 		    stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
 
 		# that when the setup script returns
-		self._wrap_subprocess_exec(cse,
+		_wrap_subprocess_exec(cse,
 		    json.dumps(dict(ip='192.0.2.10')).encode('utf-8'))
 
 		# that reserving the board
@@ -792,6 +765,57 @@ class TestDatabase(unittest.IsolatedAsyncioTestCase):
 		self.assertEqual((await data.APIKey.objects.get(
 		    key='anotherlongapikey')).user, 'bar')
 
+class TestSNMPWrapper(unittest.IsolatedAsyncioTestCase):
+	@patch('asyncio.create_subprocess_exec')
+	async def test_snmpwrapper(self, cse):
+		_wrap_subprocess_exec(cse, b'false\n')
+
+		r = await snmpget('somehost', 'snmpoid', 'bool')
+
+		self.assertEqual(r, False)
+
+		cse.assert_called_with('snmpget', '-Oqv', 'somehost',
+		    'snmpoid', stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
+
+		_wrap_subprocess_exec(cse, b'true\n')
+		r = await snmpget('somehost', 'snmpoid', 'bool')
+
+		self.assertEqual(r, True)
+
+		# that a bogus return value
+		_wrap_subprocess_exec(cse, b'bogus\n')
+
+		# raises an error
+		with self.assertRaises(RuntimeError):
+			await snmpget('somehost', 'snmpoid', 'bool')
+
+		# that an unknown type, raises an error
+		with self.assertRaises(RuntimeError):
+			await snmpget('somehost', 'snmpoid', 'randomtype')
+
+
+class TestSNMPPower(unittest.IsolatedAsyncioTestCase):
+	@patch('bitelab.snmpset')
+	@patch('bitelab.snmpget')
+	async def test_snmppower(self, sg, ss):
+		sp = SNMPPower('host', 5)
+
+		# that when snmpget returns False
+		sg.return_value = False
+
+		self.assertFalse(await sp.getvalue())
+
+		# calls snmpget w/ the correct args
+		sg.assert_called_with('host', 'pethPsePortAdminEnable.1.5',
+		    'bool')
+
+		# that when setvalue is called
+		await sp.setvalue(True)
+
+		# calls snmpset w/ the correct args
+		ss.assert_called_with('host', 'pethPsePortAdminEnable.1.5',
+		    True)
+
 @patch.dict(os.environ, dict(BITELAB_URL='http://someserver/'))
 @patch.dict(os.environ, dict(BITELAB_AUTH='thisisanapikey'))
 class TestClient(unittest.TestCase):