Re: reading Livingston snmp extensions

Adam Goryachev (adamg@dot.net.au)
Wed, 27 Aug 1997 10:04:35 +1000

Ed Donovan wrote:
>
> Adam Goryachev <adamg@dot.net.au> writes:
>
> > Just upgraded to ComOS 3.7 and am trying to get the extra livingston
> > SNMP variables to work. I am using the cmu-snmp package under linux
> > 2.0.x, and it seems to work fine for the internet standard variables
> > but not the livingston extensions. I understand that I somehow need
> to
> > incorporate the livingston.mib with my mib.txt file but I'm not sure
> > exactly how to proceed with this. I can't seem to find a utility to
> do
> > it, and I definitely don't understand the format of the
> livingston.mib
> > file (it looks very different to the mib.txt in some respects...
>
> Hi Adam -
>
> CMU snmp has a problem parsing the mib file; I haven't seen a fix for
> that yet. But if you specify the variables by number, you don't need
> snmpwalk portmaster public .1.3.6.1.4.1.307.3.2.1.1.1.4
> (generic portmaster name and readcommunity string)
> Hope this helps,

Thank you, this helped a lot, however, I have since added the livingston (and
telebit if anyone is interested) mib's to the standard mib.txt that comes with
cmu-snmp. I slightly edited the [livingston|telebit].mib files, and also every
item that specified a SIZE(x...x) I had to comment out the SIZE portion.
Anyone who feels like it can retrieve this working mib.txt from:
ftp://livecat.deadcat.net.au/pub/mib.txt
ftp://livecat.deadcat.net.au/pub/mib.txt.gz
Hope this helps...
If you still have any questions, I'll be happy to answer them in email.

Regards,
Adam Goryachev

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> Ed Donovan ed@capecod.net