[SNMP4J] Any plan for the handling of object names?

[Frank Fock]

Hi,

There are no plans to integrate a MIB compiler. The reasons is:

It is not a good design pratice to include MIB specification at runtime
into an agent nor the manager. Instead convenient object name to OID
mappings should be done at compile time. So if a compiler would be
included into the package, this would cause a overhead for most users.

What is the solution?

You can use JASMI (http://www.mibdesigner.com) if you need runtime
MIB information though. If you do not implement a generic SNMP tool
like a browser, then using MIB information at compile time is recommended.
A highly customizable MIB compiler and code generator like AgenPro
(http://www.agentpp.com) can do this job.

Besides the above you can also find other MIB compilers for Java like
Mibble, SMI4J, etc.

Best regards,
Frank

M Nishida wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I was wondering if SNMP4J had the capability to use object names or a
>tool to translate between the textual and numerical format like the
>snmptranslate tool in Net-SNMP.  I searched through the mailing list and
>found the following.
>
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>
>>[SNMP4J] About SNMP4J
>>Jochen Katz katz at agentpp.com
>>Thu Feb 24 22:34:33 GMT 2005
>>    
>>
>>>1. SNMP4J prints the traps in it numeric form. Is there a way to map the
>>>numbers to some verbal representation of the objects? So that the object
>>>name is displayed instead of the numeric value?
>>>      
>>>
>>Not at the moment...
>>    
>>
>
>Is there any plan for such capabilities to be added to SNMP4J in the
>future?  
>I personallly prefer to handle the text form object names than the
>numeric OIDs and found Net-SNMP's capability to switch back and forth
>between textual and numerical format very useful.  It would be great if
>SNMP4J can do something similar in the very near future.
>
>Much Regards,
>M Nishida
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