Hi,

I want to read all the objects form the mib file that a manager having ,I have developed one tool to get some data form a snmp enabled agent.I want to enhance that tool by showing all the oids form the manager mib file .I am using net-snmp library .

I saw the following

/usr/local/share/snmp/mibs/

folder and it having many mib files but how I can able to form a list of oid it having,I gone through the mibs and saw the structures but how to know the oids of each and every object mentioned in the mib files.I want to list all the oids as follows

SNMPv2-MIB::sysDescr.0 = .1.3.6.1.2.1.1.1.0
SNMPv2-MIB::sysObjectID.0 = .1.3.6.1.2.1.1.2.0

..... etc I want to scan all the mib files and to find out all the oid form that files. How to do this ?? kindly tell me ,any suggestion is highly appreciated.

Thanks

well as I understand the structure of them, very meticulously and painfully. As the oids are never listed explicitly, but built up layer by layer from nothing, you've got a pretty chunky task to piece it all together. I'd try to avoid needing to do this.

I think you can use snmptranslate for what you're seeking. I'm no expert at snmp but had run across this command some months ago. On checking man page today I was able to do:

snmptranslate -Tz -m ./SNMPv2-MIB.txt

That gave output like:
"org" "1.3"
"dod" "1.3.6"
"internet" "1.3.6.1"
"directory" "1.3.6.1.1"
"mgmt" "1.3.6.1.2"
"mib-2" "1.3.6.1.2.1"
"system" "1.3.6.1.2.1.1"
"sysDescr" "1.3.6.1.2.1.1.1"
"sysObjectID" "1.3.6.1.2.1.1.2"
"sysUpTime" "1.3.6.1.2.1.1.3"
"sysContact" "1.3.6.1.2.1.1.4"
"sysName" "1.3.6.1.2.1.1.5"
"sysLocation" "1.3.6.1.2.1.1.6"
etc...

It shouldn't be too hard to use a for loop to act on all the MIBs and concatenate the information together in the format you requested. Something like the following:

NB: On my RHEL6 system the MIBs in /usr/share and named *MIB.txt. If yours are named differently you'd modify accordingly.

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Hi,MensaWater
Thanks for your reply.

heh, OK so it was easy after all!

HI,acid_kewpie
It is easy if we use the tool other wise it is difficult but possible.
Thanks

Hi pradiptart,
I'm also developing an application working on SNMP. I need your help to read the MIB files through java code and decode them to OIDs. Do let me know asap

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