Re: [libsmi] libsmi-0.3 announcement

["David T. Perkins" <dperkins@dsperkins.com>]

HI,

Is there available a set of test MIB modules that demonstrate the
operation of Smidiff?

Regards,
/david t. perkins

At 04:30 PM 11/23/2001 +0100, Frank Strauss wrote:
>The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
>that has been posted to comp.protocols.snmp,comp.dcom.net-management as well.
>
>Libsmi 0.3 is available for download.
>
>Copyright (c) 1999-2001 Frank Strauss, Technical University of Braunschweig.
>
>Libsmi is a C library that allows network management applications and
>MIB authoring tools to access SMI MIB module information through a
>well defined API that hides the nasty details of locating and parsing
>SMIv1/v2 MIB modules.  Libsmi supports exact and iterative retrieval
>functions for all major SMIv1 and SMIv2 constructs.
>
>There are four tools on top of the library and a sh/awk-script:
>
>  - Smiquery allows simple queries for single MIB module items.
>    Smilint allows to increase the verbosity of the parser(s), so that
>    MIB module files can be checked for syntax and semantic errors.
>
>  - Smidump can be used to dump MIB modules in various formats. The
>    current output backends allow to dump trees of OIDs, type
>    definitions and recursive imports, to convert modules between
>    SMIv1 and SMIv2, to produce JIDM compliant CORBA-IDL files,
>    UCD-SNMP code stubs, MOSY style output, JAX Java AgentX sub-agent
>    templates, XML and XML-Schema MIB representations, Perl and Python
>    representations, graphical conceptual MIB models, and SCLI code
>    stubs.
>
>  - Smidiff allows MIB authors, MIB reviewers and implementors to
>    compare two revisions of the same MIB for legal and illegal
>    changes.
>
>  - Finally, smistrip allows to strip SMIv1/v2 modules from documents
>    like RFCs and Internet-Drafts.
>
>Enclosed with the libsmi package, there are all (bug fixed) current
>IETF standard MIB modules as of 2001-11-23, as well as some other
>modules, man pages for all library functions and tools, and a small
>libsmi test suite.
>
>The software comes with automake/autoconf and libtool support. Hence
>it should compile and build with or without shared libraries on most
>UNIX style platforms, as well as on W32/cygwin, though it's just
>developed on Sun Solaris 2.5.x and Linux. However, questions about all
>platforms can be discussed on the libsmi mailinglist.
>
>For those familiar with recent libsmi development: The most significant
>change since the previous 0.2.x releases is the addition of the smidiff
>tool for MIB revision comparison. It has been developed during the past
>three months primarily by Torsten Klie.
>
>Online information on libsmi together with download and CVS access
>information, the (free) license terms, manual pages, and the mailing
>list is available at:
>
>        http://www.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de/projects/libsmi/
>
>
>Enjoy!
>
>        Frank Strauss <strauss@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de>
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