hi, i've just added some of Nokia's enterprise MIB files to my collection ... and the Perl code i've written which queries 'ifIndex' broke.
guru> snmptranslate -On -IR ifIndex .1.3.6.1.4.1.94.1.21.5.2.2.1.3 guru> snmptranslate -IR ifIndex NOKIA-IPSO-LBCLUSTER-MIB::ifIndex guru> seems to me that Nokia has defined 'ifIndex' to mean something enterprise-specific ... whereas my code wants 'ifIndex' to refer to IF-MIB::ifIndex guru> snmptranslate -IR IF-MIB::ifIndex IF-MIB::ifIndex guru> i'm trying to understand why Nokia would do this ... what benefit would accrue to their SNMP agent, by redefining 'ifIndex' to be something enterprise-specific? can anyone think of a reason to do this? or is this more likely the result of a naive MIB file author? does this happen a lot? i'm wondering if i outta go back to my code and specify both the MIB file *and* the object value, whenever i query a variable. that would be a lot of work ... is anyone else in the habit of doing this (specifying "MIB-file::object value")? or have i run into a zebra? (i.e, an unusual case) --sk stuart kendrick fhcrc ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Oracle Space Sweepstakes Want to be the first software developer in space? Enter now for the Oracle Space Sweepstakes! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7412&alloc_id=16344&op=click _______________________________________________ Net-snmp-users mailing list [email protected] Please see the following page to unsubscribe or change other options: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/net-snmp-users
