Re: reserved characters in MIBs

"Dave Shield" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.net-snmp.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 14/03/07, Joao Miguel Ferreira <[email protected]> wrote:
> just bumped into a MIB that contains an underscore character "_"....
> aparentlly the snmptranslate tool does not like it....

See 'snmcmd(1)' and the option '-Pu'


> searching around I noticed that none of the MIBs that ships with
> net-snmp contains this character...
>
> is this a reserved character ?

Yes.
Or more accurately, it's not a valid character for MIB object descriptors.
See RFC 2578 section 3.1, second para.   Names should be purely
alphanumeric - no punctuation.

Dave

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