I know nothing about what Nways supports regarding the 8260, though if they
don't now, then I would have thought they would be planning to do so.
Supporting IBM hardware is one of their primary missions. Furthermore, it looks
to me like what you are after is the table which maps ports to interfaces, and I
thought that was one of the primary things that Nways provided. Are you sure
you are on the current release? If you need a more definitive answer on this,
then I would suggest a call to Support for Nways.
The interface to snmpmib.bin is the MIB browser. Can you not get what you want
from there?
After all, snmpmib.bin is just a binary representation of a bunch of MIBs
arranged in hierarchical fashion. It does not store the values you get by a
query, so anything you can get from snmpmib.bin you could also get by manually
analyzing the MIB. And the MIB browser should show that same structure to you.
If what you want is the actual values returned in this array from an 8260 in a
programmatic fashion, I would have thought a simple script with snmpget for the
OIDs you want would suffice, or perhaps you could gather them automatically
using snmpCollect if they don't change frequently or you know the schedule on
which they do.
There is no other user interface to the MIB database which is supported nor
planned so far as I know. Furthermore there is no design document other than
the code itself, so it would be an effort to prepare some thing like that.
Someone would have to be tasked to do it, and by providing it to you, NetView
product development would be now be declaring another public user interface
that must be documented and maintained. Those are the legal niceties of what
you are asking for.
If you think that is how it should be, then my suggestion is to send a note to
netview AT tivoli DOT com explaining why you want such an interface so it can be
considered for a future release.
James Shanks
Tivoli (NetView for UNIX) L3 Support
martin.conway AT barclays.co DOT uk on 06/30/99 10:14:31 AM
To: James Shanks/Tivoli Systems
cc: nv-l AT ucsbvm.ucsb DOT edu
Subject: RE: Re: snmpmib.bin format
The 8260 Mib contains a table describing the contents of each slot in
the 8260 chassis known as the static summary table. When the ssvalues
variable requested, information is returned as an octet string which
contain BER encoded data as follows:
The OIDs and values of the objects to be summarized,
given as an octet string in the 'New Summary' format.
NEW_SUMMARY DEFINITION ::= BEGIN
IMPORTS TimeTicks FROM RFC1155-SMI;
Message ::= CHOICE OF {
Message_0
}
Message_0 ::= [0] IMPLICIT SEQUENCE {
timeStamp TimeTicks,
containments CONTAINMENTS
}
CONTAINMENTS ::= SEQUENCE OF CONTAINMENT
CONTAINMENT ::= SEQUENCE {
prefix OID, -- Base OID
blocks BLOCKS
}
BLOCKS ::= SEQUENCE OF BLOCK
BLOCK ::= SEQUENCE {
suffix SUFFIX,
values VALUES
}
SUFFIX ::= CHOICE OF {
SEQUENCE OF INTEGER, -- Indicies (i.e. slot.port)
NULL
}
VALUES ::= SEQUENCE OF VALUE
VALUE ::= SEQUENCE {
attribute INTEGER,
data DATA
}
DATA ::= CHOICE OF {
INTEGER,
OCTET STRING,
TimeTicks
}
END
As the returned data contains an OID relating to a particular
configuration item we can use published API calls to resolve the OID to
a more meaningful name. However, I could not see an equivalent API call
that could be used to look up enummerated data types from the integer
values used to represent them in the ssvalues string.
I was therefore hoping that I could use the snmpmib.bin file as a
lookup table an resolve enumerated values from their integer
equivalents. This would obviously avoid the need to deploy a seperate
MIB compiler or manually maintain a customised lookup table.
The prime driver for this work is the need to address shortfalls in the
product base suppported by the Nways/Tivoli Inventory Integration pack.
Namely, its lack of support for 8260 chassis and modules.
Having written the scripts required to recover and parse each ssvalues
string, the snmpmib.bin approach seemed to me to offer the quickest
method of identifying and displaying the values associated with the
enumerated data types recovered from the string.
If anyone has other thoughts on the problem, I'd welcome the input.
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From: James_Shanks AT TIVOLI DOT COM[SMTP:James_Shanks AT TIVOLI DOT COM]
Sent: 30 June 1999 14:07
To: NV-L AT UCSBVM.ucsb DOT edu
Cc: James_Shanks AT TIVOLI DOT COM
Subject: Re: snmpmib.bin format
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There is no doc because there is no user interface -- we don't publish
internal
stuff when we do not intend to support user modification of it. Why
do you
want it?
James Shanks
Tivoli (NetView for UNIX) L3 Support
Martin Conway <martin.conway AT BARCLAYS.CO DOT UK> on 06/30/99 06:54:55 AM
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To: NV-L AT UCSBVM.UCSB DOT EDU
cc: (bcc: James Shanks/Tivoli Systems)
Subject: snmpmib.bin format
Hi,
Does anyone have details of the file format of snmpmib.bin. I checked
the documentation and can't seem to find any references to it.
Cheers
Martin
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