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Re: [nv-l] Walking a new MIB

To: D T <dtmitre@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [nv-l] Walking a new MIB
From: netview@toddh.net (Todd H.)
Date: 20 Aug 2002 18:00:44 -0500
Cc: nv-l@lists.tivoli.com
Reply-to: nv-l@lists.tivoli.com
Welcome to the fun of explaining SNMP version support for various
pieces of netview.

D T <dtmitre@yahoo.com> writes:
> Netview 7.1.2 on Solaris8 :: So I loaded a MIB into the v2 loader.  

> Worked fine and I didn't get any errors, also had previously loaded
> the dependencies.  When I log into the web console and attempt to
> walk the MIB, I can't see it.  When I use snmpwalk on the agent
> machine, it outputs the first few MIBs with the actual name, and the
> rest with the number.  The weird thing is I can walk the MIB using
> MGSoft.  Did I miss a step or something?

You're seeing the impact of loading a MIB into the v1/v2 mib database
that isn't seen/used by another portion of netview.

/usr/OV/bin/snmpwalk uses the v1 MIB database in netview.  To populate
this database, you would have had to load with /usr/OV/bin/xnmloadmib
(available via the X gui option "load mib SNMP", which in turn
populates the v1 mib database /usr/OV/conf/snmpmib.bin and its text
buddy /usr/OV/conf/snmpmib.  To browse this database, you use the v1
mib browser /usr/OV/bin/xnmbrowser.  

If you do not have mib files that are in v1 to load into this
database, you can't successfully load em, and hence you will not see
text descriptions with a /usr/OV/bin/snmpwalk.   It's kinda  a drag. 

There is a second separate mib database that can take in v1 or v2
mibs.  
To load it:  /usr/OV/bin/xnmloadmib2
To browse it:  /usr/OV/bin/xnmbrowser2  (gui option "browse mib snmpv1/v2")

I don't think that database gets used by anything but the xnmbrowser2
program. 

--
Todd H.  
http://www.toddh.net/






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