Sorry and Thanks.
I asked this because the variable I was having problems with was defined
as displayString...
eventTime OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX DisplayString (SIZE (0..50))
ACCESS read-only
STATUS mandatory
DESCRIPTION "Events time since 00:00 Universal Coordinated Time,
January 1, 1970"
::= { clustertrapvars 14 }
The value send over was:"Thu Sep 9 12:51:24 2004."
Don't know why it got printed out as hex...
Hans
-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Shield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2004 4:28 PM
To: HOFKENS Hans (BMB)
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Hex-to-ASCII of varbins
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> Thanks.
> I was just testing with -OT and -Oa.
> -Oa does the job.
>
> I wonder however why this not the default.....
Why should it be?
OCTET STRINGs are not necessarily printable.
That's what DISPLAY HINTs are for - if a particular
object is meant to hold printable values, then it should
be defined as such (i.e. "DisplayString" or similar).
If the MIB designer was vague (and/or lazy) and just used
a bare OCTET STRING definition, then we have to try and
guess whether this is probably a printable string, or a
binary one (such as an IP or ethernet address).
Dave
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