MIB Designer export patch change for brain-dead parsers?

[Frank Fock]

Gary,

You can deactivate the generation of the extra ASN.1 comments dynamically
created by MIB Designer in MIB Designer's preferences. This should avoid
any problems with parsers that cannot handle ASN.1 comments correctly.

This option is available in the current MIB Designer. But may be you have
different problem? May be you can explain it in more details then?

Thanks in advance,
Frank

Gary McWilliams wrote:

> Is there any update on this question (I have the same problem).
>
> Is this something that will (may be optional?) be included in a future
> release?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin Janzen [mailto:janzen____pixelmetrix.com]
> Sent: 18 February 2002 11:38
> To: agentpp-dl____agentpp.com
> Subject: MIB Designer export patch change for brain-dead parsers?
>
> Hi!  I'm wondering whether it'd be possible to get a minor change in the way
> in which MIB Designer writes exported MIBs.  The 1.7 version adds a comment
> containing the numeric OID value, as follows:
>
>   tspEventPIDBandwidthAboveMaxThreshold NOTIFICATION-TYPE
>       OBJECTS      { ... }
>       STATUS       current
>       DESCRIPTION  "..."
>     -- 1.3.6.1.4.1.6768.6.4.5.0.1000 --  ::= { tspEventsV2 1000 }
>
> That's nice information to have; but I'd prefer to see this:
>
>   tspEventPIDBandwidthAboveMaxThreshold NOTIFICATION-TYPE
>       OBJECTS      { ... }
>       STATUS       current
>       DESCRIPTION  "..."
>       ::= { tspEventsV2 1000 }  -- 1.3.6.1.4.1.6768.6.4.5.0.1000 --
>
> Background: Some network management systems I've run into have broken MIB
> parsers, which don't seem to be aware that a second "--" is supposed to
> terminate a comment.  Therefore, the important bits are lost, resulting in
> lots of load errors, frustrated customers, etc.
>
> Yes, I know we should abuse NMS vendors who do this, and so help to rid the
> world of this sort of thing; but in the meantime, putting the comment at the
> end of the line would ensure that the MIB always works.
>
> Thanks in advance...
>