Re: How to add EtherLike-MIB to net-snmp?

Thanks for the response. I'll keep looking at the if-mib and see if I can
figure it out or use mib2c to use a different template on it.

Actually I see so much information in Agent.txt and README.mib2c that I
missed before I sent out this email and I would have surely had my wrist
slapped at most other free-ware user groups. So I appreciate having escaped
an Ouch(!) and thank for your courtesy and kindness.


Regards,
Kavita


On 3/24/10 10:38 AM, "Dave Shield" <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 24 March 2010 13:58, Kavita Raghunathan
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>       For now, let me ask you: how do I use EtherLike-MIB.txt
>>>> to generate .c and .h, even if they are only stubs ?
>>> 
>>> Copy the MIB file into the appropriate directory,
>>> and then run
>>> 
>>>     mib2c -c mib2c.{template}.conf  EtherLike-MIB::dot3StatsTable
>> 
>> Why must I specify a table? I want the whole MIB.
> 
> So run "mib2c" once for each table.
> If you compile the agent to include all of these modules,
> then you will get the whole MIB.
> 
> But it's sensible to tackle problems one step at a time.
> Implement the simplest table first, then add on the others
> in turn.
> 
> Don't run before you can walk :-)
> 
> 
>> Absolutely. I'm going to do that next. But there is a lot of proprietary
>> MIBs we have and I'm trying to understand how hard it will be to code those
>> to use net-snmp agent. Any input?
> 
> The hardest thing about implementing most MIBs is obtaining the
> underlying data that you wish to report.   Turning this into SNMP
> is relatively straightforward, which is why it can be automated ("mib2c")
> 
> The main bit that can't be automated is getting hold of the data
> in the first place.
> 
> 
> 
>> I'm also having a real hard time trying to figure out how to get the if-mib
>> (ifTable/ifXTable) to plug into our system. Basically I don't know what
>> modules I need to modify to plug into our user code world from the net-snmp
>> world so the ifInOctets etc can be correctly populated by polling the
>> hardware device.
> 
> I'll pass on the ifTable implementation.
> That uses MfD which is not my pigeon.
> 
> Dave


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