Re: [nv-l] MIB Loading issue

I don't know what the deal is with these draft MIBS Cisco is publishing, because they are in parts of the MIB tree which should be off-limits to commercial products, but I do understand what the error means that you are getting.

You didn't say what version of NetView, but because your error was from "ibm.nways.jdm.mib.ParseException:" I know that it had to be the new Java mib loader in 7.1. What the loader is complaining about is that according to current standards, the identifier (label) for a MIB object is always supposed to start with a lowercase letter -- no caps and no numerics. That was not always the case, but it is now. So the problem is that the label "802dot3", found at line 20, column 62, starts with an "8". All you have to do is change the label to the more standard "ieee802dot3" and this MIB will load fine. Then you can load your Cisco MIB too.

However, you might want to change the extension of both those MIBS from .my to .mib. One peculiarity of the 7.1 Java loader and browser, that they will give you error messages if your text files are not called .mib, though both should still work.

James Shanks
Level 3 Support for Tivoli NetView for UNIX and NT
Tivoli Software / IBM Software Group

"Brian Green" <brian.green AT cgi DOT ca>

02/08/2002 02:25 PM
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Subject: [nv-l] MIB Loading issue

I am now having a problem with loading MIBS into NetView. I have most of the Cisco MIBS that have been given to me by our network people loaded, with one exception: CISCO-LAG-MIB-V1SMI.my It has a dependency on IEEE8023-LAG-MIB which I have, but I have tried to import two version of it (one Cisco-provided, one IEEE provided) and keep getting the following error:

Parsing the loaded MIBs together with MIBs selected for loading.
Processing File: IEEE8023-LAG-MIB-V1SMI.my
ibm.nways.jdm.mib.ParseException: Encountered "802dot3" at line 20, column 62.
Was expecting one of:
"}" ...
<VALUE> ...
<TYPE> ...
<NUM> ...
Has anyone been able to load this MIB? What am I doing wrong (or not doing at all)?

Thanks,

Brian

Brian W. Green
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