About the MIBS distributed with Net-SNMP.

This directory contains a very basic set of MIB files, ready for use.

In addition, there are some scripts and table files to help you get a

fuller collection of MIB files.

smistrip - a script that can extract a MIB file from an RFC (or I-D)

mibfetch - a script that will fetch an RFC file from a mirror, and extract

	the hosted MIB from it. It assumes that you have wget installed.

rfclist - a list of RFC numbers and corresponding MIB name(s)

ianalist - a list of files at the IANA server that holds IANA maintained

	MIBs

Makefile.mib - rules for extracting current MIB files from RFC and IANA

	files.

rfcmibs.diff - a set of required patches for MIB files extracted from RFCs

The file Makefile.mib holds rules that fetch and extract MIB files from

their hosting RFCs. Make will use wget to retrieve the RFC files, and,

as I am located in Denmark, use the RFC mirror at NORDUnet. You may change

that at the top of Makefile.mib.

Makefile.mib also holds rules that will collect all the current IETF MIB

definitions, using the lists in rfclist and ianalist. To get them all,

use

	make -f Makefile.mib allmibs

Note, that there are a few fatal syntactic errors in some of the RFC

definitions. To make them all parse successfully with the Net-SNMP parser,

you should apply the patches in the file rfcmibs.diff. These patches are

typical for the problems that are commonly seen with MIB files from various

sources:

- forgetting to import enterprises/mib-2/transmission from SNMPv2-SMI

- thinking that a -- comment ends at end-of-line, not at the next --

- using _ in identifiers. A - may be used in its place

- various misspellings

There is a short-cut rule

	make -f Makefile.mib rfc

that will also apply the patches. Note that Makefile.mib and smistrip has

configurable versions of awk and patch. If you are running Solaris you

must set these to nawk and gpatch respectively.

DISCLAIMER: The patches provided here for the IETF standard MIB files

are not endorsed by anyone, and I don't guarantee that they bring them

accordance with what the authors intended. All I will promise, is that

the MIB files can be parsed.