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James, as much as I appreciate your input, this was not a request for help.
Thats why I opened a PMR. It doesn't really matter to me whether the mib
loader supports an underscore character or not. It produces a cryptic error
message resulting in lots of extra work. So I opened it with support. Thats
why I pay them!
It was Paul Stroud who tried the removal of the underscores. He's turned it
over to backend support because he couldn't make it work either. I can't
tell you the error because I didn't see it. He just said it caused
additional errors when he tried it. I posted it here only as FYI for those
who need to load mibs.
Dont' worry, I still heed the words of the jedi mib master.
-----Original Message-----
From: James Shanks [mailto:jshanks AT us.ibm DOT com]
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 12:43 PM
To: IBM NetView Discussion
Subject: RE: [NV-L] MIB Browser and Loader for NV 7.1 -- some MIBs won't
load
Scott -
I cannot help you if you don't explain the details.
What exactly happened when you tried changing the underscores to hyphens?
James Shanks
Level 3 Support for Tivoli NetView for UNIX and NT
Tivoli Software / IBM Software Group
"Barr, Scott" <Scott_Barr AT csgsystems DOT com>
Sent by: owner-nv-l AT tkg DOT com
11/09/2001 01:36 PM
Please respond to IBM NetView Discussion
To: "'IBM NetView Discussion'" <nv-l AT tkg DOT com>
cc:
Subject: RE: [NV-L] MIB Browser and Loader for NV 7.1 -- some
MIBs won't l oad
We tried that, unsuccessfully
<flame on>
Wish the two mib compilers played by the same darn rules!
<flame off>
[|] -----Original Message-----
From: James Shanks [mailto:jshanks AT us.ibm DOT com]
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 12:06 PM
To: IBM NetView Discussion
Subject: RE: [NV-L] MIB Browser and Loader for NV 7.1 -- some MIBs won't
load
Scott -
The problem as I see it is basically this. The old code (xnmloadmib) did
not enforce ASN.1 encoding standards. The new code does. And underscores
are not valid for an identifier in a MIB. (Perkins and Ellis, Understanding
SNMP MIBs, Prentice-Hall, 1997, p.61). Just change the underscores to
hyphens and it will load fine. And it will make no difference when you
query the agent because this is done by OID not the identifier.
James Shanks
Level 3 Support for Tivoli NetView for UNIX and NT
Tivoli Software / IBM Software Group
"Barr, Scott" <Scott_Barr AT csgsystems DOT com>
Sent by: owner-nv-l AT tkg DOT com
11/09/2001 12:11 PM
Please respond to IBM NetView Discussion
To: "'IBM NetView Discussion'" <nv-l AT tkg DOT com>
cc:
Subject: RE: [NV-L] MIB Browser and Loader for NV 7.1
here is the PMR on mib loading Dell / Sun mibs. I like the mibloader.sh -
good stuff (A little slower than xnmloadmib but nothing obnoxious)
*** T1S2R3V4
*** Electronic creation by customer via Tivoli Customer Support Web Site
*** Please contact customer by Electronic
***
*** Userid: bars02
*** Email Address: scott_barr AT csgsystems DOT com
*** Fax Number: 402-431-7413
*** 24 Hour Phone Number:
***
Problem Details
.
Abstract:
TivWeb: Unable to load mibs for web console
.
System Type: Sun
System Model: Sunblade 100
Other related devices:
.
Operating System: Solaris 2.3+
Product Group: NetView for UNIX
Fileset or Version: v7.1
.
Environment:
.
Problem Description:
Greetings, we are attempting to load MIBs for the Dell Openmanage
connection for Tivoli NetView v1.3
The MIBs all load properly under xnmloadmib but most of them cannot be
loaded on the web console due to the following typical error:
=======================================================================
# mibloader.sh --load symmib.mib --commit
Loading Files
........................................................................
..............................................
Parsing the loaded MIBs together with MIBs selected for loading.
Processing File: symmib.mib
ibm.nways.jdm.mib.TokenMgrError: Lexical error at line 2, column 7.
Encountered: "_" (95), after : ""
Errors were encountered parsing MIBs. The changes will not be committed.
=======================================================================
Top Section of MIB attempting to be loaded:
-- MIB generated by mibgen version 1.0
SYMMIB_MIB-MIB DEFINITIONS ::= BEGIN
IMPORTS
enterprises
FROM RFC1155-SMI
InternationalDisplayString
FROM HOST-RESOURCES-MIB
OBJECT-TYPE
FROM RFC-1212
Counter,Gauge,
DisplayString
FROM RFC1213-MIB
Dmi_Date,Dmi_Integer64,
dmiEventDateTime,dmiCompId,dmiEventSeverity,
dmiEventStateKey,dmiEventAssociatedGroup,
dmiEventSystem,dmiEventSubSystem
FROM DMTF-DMI;
=======================================================================
Notice the error message points out line 2, column 7 which, has no data
in it. (Line 2 is blank)
Please advise on how to get these MIBs load. The mibs can be found at:
http://support.dell.com/us/en/filelib/download/index.asp?fileid=R34408
This file is a tar of traps and mibs for NetView AIX (we are running on
Solaris)
Action Taken: Sending to incoming product queue.
am1108tiv
Action Taken:
Spoke with Customer Rep and he has several Dell mibs that are loading
fine through the normal NetView mibloader GUI. But fail when using the
mibloader.sh script. From some testing here it appears there is a
problem with parsing the "_" character. I am not 100% sure of this. I
will continue to look into this.
.
Action Plan:
Researching.
Action Taken:
Attempted to get more information about the error from logging. No
additional useful information was gained from there. I have both the mib
file and mibloader log with debug turned on, but cannot reach dfs at
this time. If you pick up this call, let me know and I'll send you the
information via email.
.
Action Plan:
Passing to the backend for further diagnosis.
James,
as much as I appreciate your input, this was not a request for help. Thats why I
opened a PMR. It doesn't really matter to me whether the mib loader supports an
underscore character or not. It produces a cryptic error message resulting in
lots of extra work. So I opened it with support. Thats why I pay
them!
It was
Paul Stroud who tried the removal of the underscores. He's turned it over to
backend support because he couldn't make it work either. I can't tell you the
error because I didn't see it. He just said it caused additional errors when he
tried it. I posted it here only as FYI for those who need to load
mibs.
Dont'
worry, I still heed the words of the jedi mib master.
Scott -
I cannot help you if you don't explain
the details.
What exactly happened
when you tried changing the underscores to hyphens?
James Shanks
Level 3 Support for
Tivoli NetView for UNIX and NT
Tivoli Software / IBM Software
Group
|
| "Barr, Scott"
<Scott_Barr AT csgsystems DOT com>
Sent by: owner-nv-l AT tkg DOT com
11/09/2001 01:36 PM
Please respond to IBM NetView Discussion
|
To:
"'IBM NetView Discussion'" <nv-l AT tkg DOT com>
cc:
Subject: RE: [NV-L] MIB
Browser and Loader for NV 7.1 -- some MIBs won't l
oad
|
We tried that, unsuccessfully
<flame
on>
Wish the two mib compilers played by the same
darn rules!
<flame off>
[|] -----Original Message-----
From: James Shanks
[mailto:jshanks AT us.ibm DOT com]
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 12:06
PM
To: IBM NetView Discussion
Subject: RE: [NV-L] MIB
Browser and Loader for NV 7.1 -- some MIBs won't load
Scott -
The problem as I see it is
basically this. The old code (xnmloadmib) did not enforce ASN.1 encoding
standards. The new code does. And underscores are not valid for an
identifier in a MIB. (Perkins and Ellis, Understanding SNMP MIBs,
Prentice-Hall, 1997, p.61). Just change the underscores to hyphens and
it will load fine. And it will make no difference when you query the
agent because this is done by OID not the identifier.
James
Shanks
Level 3 Support for Tivoli NetView for UNIX and NT
Tivoli
Software / IBM Software Group
|
| "Barr, Scott"
<Scott_Barr AT csgsystems DOT com>
Sent by:
owner-nv-l AT tkg DOT com
11/09/2001 12:11 PM
Please respond to IBM NetView Discussion
|
To:
"'IBM NetView Discussion'"
<nv-l AT tkg DOT com>
cc:
Subject: RE: [NV-L] MIB Browser and
Loader for NV 7.1
|
here is the PMR on
mib loading Dell / Sun mibs. I like the mibloader.sh - good stuff (A little
slower than xnmloadmib but nothing obnoxious)
*** T1S2R3V4
*** Electronic creation by customer via
Tivoli Customer Support Web Site
*** Please contact customer by Electronic
***
*** Userid: bars02
*** Email Address: scott_barr AT csgsystems DOT com
*** Fax Number: 402-431-7413
*** 24 Hour Phone Number:
***
Problem Details
.
Abstract:
TivWeb: Unable to load mibs for web console
.
System Type: Sun
System Model: Sunblade 100
Other
related devices:
.
Operating
System: Solaris 2.3+
Product Group: NetView for UNIX
Fileset or Version: v7.1
.
Environment:
.
Problem Description:
Greetings, we are attempting to load MIBs for
the Dell Openmanage
connection for Tivoli NetView
v1.3
The MIBs all
load properly under xnmloadmib but most of them cannot be
loaded on
the web console due to the following typical error:
=======================================================================
# mibloader.sh --load symmib.mib --commit
Loading Files
........................................................................
..............................................
Parsing the loaded MIBs together with MIBs selected for
loading.
Processing File: symmib.mib
ibm.nways.jdm.mib.TokenMgrError: Lexical error at line 2, column 7.
Encountered: "_" (95), after : ""
Errors were encountered parsing MIBs. The
changes will not be committed.
=======================================================================
Top Section of MIB attempting to be loaded:
--
MIB generated by mibgen version 1.0
SYMMIB_MIB-MIB DEFINITIONS ::= BEGIN
IMPORTS
enterprises
FROM RFC1155-SMI
InternationalDisplayString
FROM HOST-RESOURCES-MIB
OBJECT-TYPE
FROM
RFC-1212
Counter,Gauge,
DisplayString
FROM RFC1213-MIB
Dmi_Date,Dmi_Integer64,
dmiEventDateTime,dmiCompId,dmiEventSeverity,
dmiEventStateKey,dmiEventAssociatedGroup,
dmiEventSystem,dmiEventSubSystem
FROM DMTF-DMI;
=======================================================================
Notice the error message points out line 2, column 7 which, has no data
in it. (Line 2 is blank)
Please advise on how to get these
MIBs load. The mibs can be found at:
http://support.dell.com/us/en/filelib/download/index.asp?fileid=R34408
This file is a tar of traps and mibs for NetView AIX (we are running
on
Solaris)
Action Taken: Sending to incoming product queue.
am1108tiv
Action Taken:
Spoke with Customer Rep and he has several Dell mibs that are
loading
fine through the normal NetView mibloader GUI. But fail
when using the
mibloader.sh script. From some testing here it
appears there is a
problem with parsing the "_"
character. I am not 100% sure of this. I
will continue to look into
this.
.
Action Plan:
Researching.
Action Taken:
Attempted to get more information about the error
from logging. No
additional useful information was
gained from there. I have both the mib
file and mibloader log with debug
turned on, but cannot reach dfs at
this time. If you pick up
this call, let me know and I'll send you the
information via email.
.
Action Plan:
Passing to the backend for
further diagnosis.
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