loading snmp object name to OID mappings

[Cosmo, Patrick]

Hi,

I have an application that allows administrators to configure snmp object
name=value parameters. The application itself must be able to lookup the OID
for the objectname in order to set a value on the device. So, somehow, we
need to get the OID to object name mappings into the snmp manager.

Are there any suggestions on how this can be done? We are considering the
following:

1. We have access to the snmp_pp MIB compiler, but it doesn't look like any
source code for compiling MIBs was included with the snmp_pp libs. Is this
source available? If so, we could possible modify it to compile the MIBs and
load the object name and OID mappings into the manager. (We don't want to
write our own MIB compiler from scratch).

2. I haven't verified this yet, but was told that the snmp_pp MIB compiler
can compile a MIB and generate a resulting "MIB database" file. If so, there
are two options I think:
	A. does the snmp_pp library already have code that can import/load
this "MIB database"?
	B. is the format of this "MIB database" documented/spec'd somewhere
so that we could write our own code to import/load this MIB database.

Any other suggestions?

thanks,
Patrick

Patrick Cosmo
 
Senior Product Engineer
Incognito Software Inc
Vancouver: (604) 688-4332 ext: 254
Toll-Free: 1-800-877-1856
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