ubuntu-10.10's snmpget doesn't understand MIB names (Unknown Object Identifier)

hi,

i've just upgraded to ubuntu-10.10 and its snmpget
(v5.4.3) doesn't understand MIB names:

  $ /usr/bin/snmpget -v1 -c public 10.0.0.11 sysUpTime.0 ifInOctets.102 ifOutOctets.102 
  sysUpTime.0: Unknown Object Identifier (Sub-id not found: (top) -> sysUpTime)
  ifInOctets.102: Unknown Object Identifier (Sub-id not found: (top) -> ifInOctets)
  ifOutOctets.102: Unknown Object Identifier (Sub-id not found: (top) -> ifOutOctets)

i searched this list's archives and found a 4 year old
message about this error. the solution was to locate the
mib file(s) and put it where snmpget was looking.

when i tried that, it seemed that mib files were present
where snmpget was looking:

  $ ls -lasp /usr/share/mibs/netsnmp
  total 160
   4 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 2010-11-08 10:35 ./
   4 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root  4096 2010-11-06 16:55 ../
   4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1913 2010-08-26 03:39 GNOME-SMI
   8 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  5931 2010-08-26 03:39 LM-SENSORS-MIB
  16 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15901 2010-08-26 03:39 NET-SNMP-AGENT-MIB
  12 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  9160 2010-08-26 03:39 NET-SNMP-EXAMPLES-MIB
  12 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  9326 2010-08-26 03:39 NET-SNMP-EXTEND-MIB
   4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  2036 2010-08-26 03:39 NET-SNMP-MIB
   4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1215 2010-08-26 03:39 NET-SNMP-MONITOR-MIB
   4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  3350 2010-08-26 03:39 NET-SNMP-PASS-MIB
   4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1226 2010-08-26 03:39 NET-SNMP-SYSTEM-MIB
   8 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  4495 2010-08-26 03:39 NET-SNMP-TC
   8 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  5039 2010-08-26 03:39 NET-SNMP-VACM-MIB
   4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  2163 2010-08-26 03:39 UCD-DEMO-MIB
   8 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  4613 2010-08-26 03:39 UCD-DISKIO-MIB
   4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  3087 2010-08-26 03:39 UCD-DLMOD-MIB
   8 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  8118 2010-08-26 03:39 UCD-IPFWACC-MIB
  44 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 44971 2010-08-26 03:39 UCD-SNMP-MIB

i "fixed" my problem by installing an old working copy (v5.3)
i had under /opt and using that but that seems a bit lame.

hmm, i just looked in /etc/snmp/snmp.conf to find:

  # As the snmp packages come without MIB files due to license reasons, loading
  # of MIBs is disabled by default. If you added the MIBs you can reenable
  # loaging them by commenting out the following line.
  mibs :

which doesn't make a lot of sense (since the files are present).
anyway, i commented out the line as suggested and it only produced
more errors. i then copied all of my old net-snmp-5.3/mibs/* files
to ~/.snmp/mibs and then it worked.

does anyone know what might be wrong with the mib files that i have
in /usr/share/mibs/netsnmp? perhaps they are deliberately incomplete
rather than absent as suggested by the comments in snmp.conf.

cheers,
raf


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