Re: Disable specifc OIDs in MIB

Robert Story <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.net-snmp.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, 9 Jul 2018 12:33:36 +0530 Thommandra wrote:
TG> > Configure can exclude entire MIBs, but not individual OIDs.
TG> > You can modify the code, but make sure you deal with get and
TG> > get-next properly.
TG> 
TG> Even if we comment/modify the code for individual OIDs, we
TG> cannot skip OIDs that are part of a MIB Table. Right?
TG> 
TG> I mean skip the OID in the snmpwalk o/p because OID will be
TG> part of the Table Entry. Please let me know

Once you are changing code, you can make it do whatever you want.
You can eliminate a column or skip certain indexes. But this will
affect all users. If you only want to skip certain columns or rows
by user, then you could use VACM views to exclude those objects.

TG> > The size of the data field shouldn't matter. Try stepping
TG> > through the mib2c generated code that creates the varbind and
TG> > see where the value in the varbind gets a bad value.
TG> 
TG> I found that the mib2c utility did not have a conversion for
TG> in_addr_t type(that is used for ASN_IP_ADDRESS). Changing the
TG> VAR templates of mib2c, fixed the issue.

Great. Can you submit a bug report on this, along with the change
you made to fix it?

Thanks,
Robert

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