smidump - Man Page
dump SMI or SPPI modules in various formats
Synopsis
smidump [ -Vhqusmk ] [ -c file ] [ -o name ] [ -p module ] [ -l level ] [ -f format ] module(s)
Description
The smidump program is used to dump the contents of a single MIB or PIB module or a collection of modules to stdout in a selectable output format. This format may be a simple tree of nodes, types or imported modules, but also a format fully compliant to SMIv1, SMIv2, SPPI or SMIng or CORBA IDL or C source code. Smidump can thus be used to convert modules from SMIv2 to SMIng and from SMIng to SMIv2, or to develop template based agent code.
Options
- -V, --version
Show the smidump version and exit.
- -h, --help
Show a help text and exit. The help text contains a list of all supported output formats.
- -c file, --config=file
Read file instead of any other (global and user) configuration file.
- -f format, --format=format
Use format when dumping a module. Supported output formats are described below. The default output format is SMIng. The format argument is case insensitive.
- -l level, --level=level
Report errors and warnings up to the given severity level. See the smilint(1) manual page for a description of the error levels. The default error level is 3.
- -s, --severity
Show the error severity in brackets before error messages.
- -m, --error-names
Show the error names in braces before error messages.
- -o name, --output=name
Write the output in one or multiple files instead of stdout. The file name(s) are derived from the name argument. Not all format support this option.
- -p module, --preload=module
Preload the module module before reading the main module(s). This may be helpful if an incomplete main module misses to import some definitions.
- -q, --quiet
Suppress comments from dumped modules. What kind of information gets suppressed depends on the output format.
- -u, --unified
Dump a unified output in case of multiple module(s) instead of multiple concatenated output sections. This is not supported for all output formats.
- -k, --keep-going
Continue as much as possible after serious parse errors. Note that the output generated after serious parse errors may be incomplete and should be used with care.
- module(s)
These are the module(s) to be dumped. If a module argument represents a path name (identified by containing at least one dot or slash character), this is assumed to be the exact file to read. Otherwise, if a module is identified by its plain module name, it is searched according to libsmi internal rules. See smi_config(3) for more details.
Output Formats
The smidump program supports the following output formats:
- sming
SMIng compliant format as defined in the SMIng Internet-Draft.
- smiv2
SMIv2 compliant format as defined in RFC 2578, RFC 2579, RFC 2580.
- smiv1
SMIv2 compliant format as defined in RFC 1155, RFC 1212, RFC 1215.
- sppi
SPPI compliant format as defined in RFC 3159. If the underlying module is not SPPI, there might be some mandatory information missing.
- mosy
Format generated by the mosy compiler.
- imports
Import hierarchy of a module.
- types
Types defined in a module.
- tree
OID registration tree structure of a module.
- metrics
Metrics derived from a module (experimental).
- identifiers
List of identifiers defined in a module.
- compliances
Compliance definitions with all included objects and notifications.
- corba
CORBA IDL and OID definitions following the JIDM specification translation rules.
- netsnmp
C source code files for usage within the net-snmp package (experimental).
- scli
ANSI C manager stubs for usage within the scli package (experimental).
- cm
Reverse engineered conceptual model in DIA XML file format (experimental).
- svg
SVG diagram of a module (experimental). Use with -u when dumping multiple modules.
- jax
Java AgentX sub-agent classes in separate files (experimental).
- perl
Perl represention of the MIB module (contributed by Martin Schulz <schulz@videotron.ca>).
- python
Python dictionaries represention of the MIB module (contributed by Pat Knight <pat@ktgroup.co.uk>).
- xml
SMI in XML format (experimental).
- xsd
SMI in XML schema format (experimental).
- sizes
SNMP best case / worst case RFC 3416 PDU sizes for typical PDUs excluding SNMP message and transport headers (experimental).
Example
This example converts the SMIv2 module IF-MIB in the current directory to IF-MIB.sming in SMIng format. Note that the ./ prefix is used to ensure reading the module from the current directory and not from a place that libsmi guesses on its own.
$ smidump -f sming ./IF-MIB > IF-MIB.sming
See Also
The libsmi(3) project is documented at http://www.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de/projects/libsmi/.
Authors
(C) 1999-2004 F. Strauss, TU Braunschweig, Germany <strauss@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de>
(C) 1999-2002 J. Schoenwaelder, TU Braunschweig, Germany <schoenw@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de>
(C) 2002-2003 J. Schoenwaelder, University of Osnabrueck, Germany
(C) 2003-2004 J. Schoenwaelder, International University Bremen, Germany
(C) 2001-2002 T. Klie, TU Braunschweig, Germany <tklie@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de>
(C) 2002 M. Bunkus, TU Braunschweig, Germany <bunkus@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de>
and contributions by many other people.