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Re: [nv-l] Mibs Unable to Load!

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Subject: Re: [nv-l] Mibs Unable to Load!
From: Larry Fagan <larrytechie@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 12:29:18 -0800 (PST)
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James,
My humble salutations to you sir..
Thanks,
Larry
--- James Shanks <jshanks@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Larry, you need not be sorry for asking basic
> questions.
> 
> But the answer is that loading MIBs has almost
> nothing to do with the way
> traps will be formatted.
> 
> In order to get traps formatted you must have a
> definition for them in
> trapd.conf.  You can add that manually using the
> GUI, xnmtrap, or by the
> addtrap command.  To get a MIB to produce a trap
> definition you run
> /usr/OV/bin/mib2trap on the MIB file.  Loading it
> with either xnmloadmib or
> xnmloadmib2 will not do that by itself.  In fact, if
> all you want to do is
> format the trap, and you never want to query the
> agent using either MIB
> browser, then you don't have to load the MIB at all.
>       The only caveat
> about that is that the MIB must be loadable by the
> SNMPv1/v2 loader,
> xnmloadmib2.  That is, if xnmloadmib2 won't load it,
> because of an internal
> syntax problem, then mib2trap, which uses the same
> libraries, will be
> unable to build an addtrap script from it.
> 
> There are other issues with using addtrap that I
> don't want to go into
> here,  under this thread, but you can check the
> archives for them or post
> your questions here when you run into them, but
> that's how you turn a MIB's
> trap definition into an entry in trapd.conf.
> 
> So have we been going down the wrong path all this
> time trying to load
> MIBs?
> 
> James Shanks
> Level 3 Support  for Tivoli NetView for UNIX and
> Windows
> Tivoli Software / IBM Software Group
> 
> 
> 


                
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