[MIB Designer] Odd syntax check from MIB compiler on single character description

Frank Fock fock at agentpp.com
Tue Feb 5 00:58:18 CET 2008


Hi Phil,

This odd behavior  is caused by the tokenizer which
takes it as a hex DISPLAY-HINT string. I will change
that in the next release.

Best regards,
Frank

PHIL BERGSTRESSER wrote:
> I get the following error when checking MIB syntax:
> 
> ------ genCSM2.mi2 ------
> genCSM2.mi2 #1: [1000] Syntax error: Encountered "\"x\"" at line 3517,
> column 13: 
> Was expecting one of: 
>   "\"\"" ...
>    ...
>  
> 
> The OID in question just has an "x" for a description, like "TBD". This
> doesn't happen on any more verbose descriptions. Here is the OID from
> the MIB:
> 
>      adGenCSMMonitorCounterHistoryTxCells OBJECT-TYPE
>         SYNTAX        Counter32
>         MAX-ACCESS    read-only
>         STATUS        current
>         DESCRIPTION
>             "x"
>          ::= { adGenCSMMonitorCounterHistoryEntry 1 }
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Phil
> 
> 
> Philip N. Bergstresser
> Design Engineer, SNMP NMS
> ADTRAN, Inc.
> 901 Explorer Blvd, 
> Huntsville, AL  35806
> (256) 963-8399
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