From: Frank Strauss <strauss@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de>

Newsgroups: comp.protocols.snmp,comp.dcom.net-management

To: mibs@ops.ietf.org, snmpv3@lists.tislabs.com, libsmi@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de

Date: 21 Jun 2002 16:45:00 +0200

Subject: libsmi-0.4 announcement

Message-ID: <libsmi-0.4-ANNOUNCE@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de>

Libsmi 0.4 is available for download.

Copyright (c) 1999-2002 Frank Strauss, Technical University of Braunschweig.

Libsmi is a C library that allows network management applications and

MIB and PIB authoring tools to access SMI MIB module information and

SPPI PIB module information through a well defined API that hides the

nasty details of locating and parsing MIB or PIB modules.  Libsmi

supports exact and iterative retrieval functions for all major SMIv1/v2

and SPPI constructs.

There are five tools on top of the library and a sh/awk-script:

  - Smiquery allows simple queries for single MIB/PIB module items.

  - Smilint allows to increase the verbosity of the parser(s), so that

    module files can be checked for syntax and semantic errors.

  - Smidump can be used to dump MIB and PIBmodules in various

    formats. The current output backends allow to dump trees of OIDs,

    type definitions and recursive imports, to convert modules between

    SMIv1 and SMIv2, to dump SPPI PIBs, to produce JIDM compliant

    CORBA-IDL files, UCD-SNMP code stubs, MOSY style output, JAX Java

    AgentX sub-agent templates, XML and XML-Schema MIB

    representations, Perl and Python representations, graphical

    conceptual models, and SCLI code stubs.

  - Smidiff allows MIB authors, MIB reviewers and implementors to

    compare two revisions of the same MIB for legal and illegal

    changes.

  - Finally, smistrip allows to strip SMIv1/v2 and SPPI modules from

    documents like RFCs and Internet-Drafts.

Enclosed with the libsmi package, there are all (bug fixed) current

IETF standard MIB modules as of 2002-06-21, as well as some other

modules, some SPPI PIBs that are taken from Internet Drafts, man pages

for all library functions and tools, and a small libsmi test suite.

The software comes with automake/autoconf and libtool support. Hence

it should compile and build with or without shared libraries on most

UNIX style platforms, as well as on W32/cygwin, though it's just

developed on Sun Solaris 2.5.x and Linux. However, questions about all

platforms can be discussed on the libsmi mailinglist.

For those familiar with recent libsmi development: The most

significant changes since the previous 0.3.x releases is the addition

of the SPPI parser (which is integrated into the SMI parser), the

addition of an SPPI dump driver (both supplied by Moritz Bunkus), and

major enhancements of the XML Schema dump driver (supplied by Torsten

Klie).  Furthermore, a number of bugs have been fixed and many

Standard MIB modules and PIB modules have been updated and added.

Online information on libsmi together with download and CVS access

information, the (free) license terms, manual pages, and the mailing

list is available at:

	http://www.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de/projects/libsmi/

Enjoy!

	Frank Strauss <strauss@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de>