Re: RDBMS-MIB

On 2/22/07, Dave Shield <D.T.Shield@csc.liv.ac.uk> wrote:
> On 22/02/07, Josh Tolley <eggyknap@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm messing with the RDBMS-MIB (rfc 1697), and from all I can see, it
> > looks like the RFC uses invalid syntax.... the RDBMS-MIB imports
> > applIndex and applGroup from APPLICATION-MIB (rfc 1565), but

> > I haven't been able to get much of an error message out of any apps to
> > really tell me what's wrong... [but] snmptranslate can't take
> > it, etc. Can anyone shed any light on this?
>
> I've just tried installing the RDBMS-MIB and APPLICATION-MIB from
> RFCs 1565 and 1697 respectively. snmptranslate can interpret
> MIB objects from the RDBMS-MIB quite happily.

You spent more time than I would have expected of someone answering a
random n00bie stranger on a mailing list. Many sincere thanks.

> However, while retrieving these MIBs, I also came across another
> version of the APPLICATION-MIB (dated 1998), which had a
> different structure, and hence didn't work successfully with the
> RDBMS MIB.

This was at least part of my problem; at least some of the several
times I downloaded APPLICATION-MIB I got the '98 version.

> Try running snmptranslate with the option -Dparse-mibs, which
> will show you exactly which MIB files are being read in.

Very helpful. The end result of all this was that I got a version that
appears to work; even mbrowse likes it. Again, many thanks.

- Josh

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