James,
I am a bit worried after your answer. May be you can do something about it.
What about the MIB application builder? Is it suitable for v2 MIBs?
We use a lot scripts made with this tool.
Thanks for your reply.
Laurens Rauwers
HITT
> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Shanks [SMTP:James_Shanks@TIVOLI.COM]
> Sent: Friday, January 21, 2000 1:42 PM
> To: NV-L@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU
> Subject: Re: xnmloadmib and xnmloadmib2 question
>
> Since SNMP V2 is a superset of SNMP V1, then of course you can load V1
> MIBs with
> the V2 loader.
> But in NetView only the V1 Browser is fully integrated with the rest of
> the
> product. If you select the MIB Browser from the snmpCollect dialog, or
> from
> the Ruleset editor, you will get the V1 browser, since these two parts of
> the
> product have not been completely updated to handle all the V2 constructs.
> So
> until that happens you will need both loaders and browsers.
> Most vendors will supply V1 copies of the V2 MIBS if you find that you
> need them
> for these other parts of NetView. As I said in my append yesterday on
> 3Com
> MIBS however, some vendors are still complaining about this, though it has
> always been so.
>
> Development is aware of the SNMP V2 deficiencies in NetView and will be
> addressing these in a future release.
>
> James Shanks
> Tivoli (NetView for UNIX) L3 Support
>
>
>
> "Rauwers, Laurens" <rauwers@HITT.NL> on 01/21/2000 07:17:00 AM
>
> Please respond to Discussion of IBM NetView and POLYCENTER Manager on
> NetView
> <NV-L@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU>
>
> To: NV-L@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU
> cc: (bcc: James Shanks/Tivoli Systems)
> Subject: xnmloadmib and xnmloadmib2 question
>
>
>
>
> Hi,
> When I select Option->load MIB->snmpv1/snmpv2 in NV5.1.2 I use the
> xnmloadmib2 command, the window title says that
> it is an snmpv1/snmpv2 loader.
> So it can load SMIv1 and SMIv2 MIB's?
> If this is the case, the command xnmloadmib is obsolete.
> Is this conclusion correct?
>
> Does anybody have a straight answer?
>
> Thanks
>
> Laurens Rauwers
> HITT
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