My understanding is that the keyword "MAX-ACCESS" is SNMPv2 syntax (ref rfc1902)
and that "ACCESS" is in SNMPv1 (rfc1212). These cannot be mixed within the
MIB, since the OBJECT-TYPE macros defined in each are different and cannot
both be IMPORTed.

So the MIB would be syntactically incorrect. A parser would be correct to
flag it. A snippet or reference to the MIB may clarify?

David Horton

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>Subject: Re: [NV-L] MAX-ACCESS in mib files
>From: James Shanks <jshanks AT us.ibm DOT com>
>Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 07:40:38 -0400
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>MAX-ACCESS isn't a stand-alone construct.  It would be parsed as part of
>
>something more fundamental, so before diagnosis could begin, we'd need to
>
>know what that higher-level construct is.
>
>The three MIB loaders in NetView all have different parsers, so they are
>
>susceptible to different kinds of problems.  It's been a very long time

>since I have seen a problem with xnmloadmib, since it just does SNMPv1,

>but that doesn't mean that there isn't one still lurking in it.  And of

>course, the root of the problem may also depend on what else you have 
>already loaded. 
>
>If you have a MIB that won't load then the thing to do is to contact 
>Support.  They should collect the MIB and your current MIB database, the
>
>text and binary files from /usr/OV/conf, so we can have a look at the 
>entire package.
>
>James Shanks
>Level 3 Support  for Tivoli NetView for UNIX and Windows
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>Tivoli Software, IBM Corp
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>Jane Curry <jane.curry AT skills-1st.co DOT uk> 
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>Just a glitch I saw yesterday which may save other people pain....
>
>I was importing  the  SNIA-SML-rev1-21.mib using NV 7.1.4 FP4 on AIX . 
>It's an SNMP V1 MIB.  It loaded fine using the Web Console MIB Loader 
>but would NOT load using the xnmloadmib (Options -> Load/Unload MIBs) 
>utility.  It just hung and soaked CPU - had to kill the process.
>
>After a large amount of trial and error, it turned out that there wre a

>number of MAX-ACCESS statements in this MIB.  Changing them to ACCESS 
>made everything work fine.
>
>Not sure why - mebbe James-the-MIB-guru has a simple explanation for us???
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>Cheers,
>Jane
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