1.\" 2.\" Copyright (C) 2004-2006 3.\" Hartmut Brandt. 4.\" All rights reserved. 5.\" 6.\" Author: Harti Brandt <harti@FreeBSD.org> 7.\" 8.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 9.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 10.\" are met: 11.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 12.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 13.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 14.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 15.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 16.\" 17.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 18.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 19.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 20.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 21.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 22.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 23.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 24.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 25.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 26.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 27.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 28.\" 29.\" $Begemot: gensnmpdef.1 383 2006-05-30 07:40:49Z brandt_h $ 30.\" 31.Dd May 28, 2006 32.Dt GENSNMPDEF 1 33.Os 34.Sh NAME 35.Nm gensnmpdef 36.Nd "generate a MIB description file from MIBs" 37.Sh SYNOPSIS 38.Nm 39.Op Fl hEe 40.Op Fl c Ar cut 41.Ar name Op Ar ... 42.Sh DESCRIPTION 43The 44.Nm 45utility is used to create an initial MIB description file from 46one or more MIBs. 47The description file must be edited to be actually useful 48for feeding it into 49.Xr gensnmptree 1 . 50.Pp 51The following options are available: 52.Bl -tag -width indent 53.It Fl c Ar cut 54Specify the number of initial sub-oids that should be omitted 55from the tree in the output. 56.Xr gensnmptree 1 57automatically adds 1.3.6 in front of all OIDs so the default value 58of 3 is just correct in most cases. 59.It Fl E 60Generate typedefs for named enumerations. 61These are enumerations defined via the TEXTUAL-CONVENTION macro. 62The normal tree output is suppressed. 63.It Fl e 64Generate typedefs for unnamed enumerations. 65These are enumerations defined in the SYNTAX clause of an OBJECT-TYPE macro. 66The name of the enumeration is formed by appending the string 67.Ql Type 68to the name of the object. 69The normal tree output is suppressed. 70.It Fl h 71Print a short help text and exit. 72.El 73.Pp 74.Nm 75does no attempt on sorting the OID tree so in case of complex and 76non-standard MIBs it is necessary to sort the tree in the resulting definition 77file by hand. 78.Sh SEE ALSO 79.Xr snmpd 1 80.Sh AUTHORS 81.An Hartmut Brandt Aq harti@FreeBSD.org 82.Sh BUGS 83The utility is by no means bullet-proof and may fail for complex 84or non-standard MIBs. 85Its output is expected to be edited by hand. 86