Hi!
When a MIB is incomplete (because for example, there is a missing MIB
which should have been imported), it is not possible to retrieve nodes
that are not resolvable to an OID (which is good). However, it is still
possible to retrieve nodes by their name.
For example :
$ cat test.mib
TEST-MIB DEFINITIONS ::= BEGIN
IMPORTS inexistentObject FROM INEXISTENT-MIB;
myNode OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { inexistentObject 1 }
END
$ smiquery -p test.mib node TEST-MIB::myNode
MibNode: TEST-MIB::myNode
OID: 1414743380.1112100141
Declaration: <value-assignment>
NodeKind: node
The OID is bogus. Sometimes, libsmi will just segfault.
If I use smidump, it is able to detect that the MIB is bogus. If I force
dump (with -k), it gives me an empty MIB because the bogus node is not
added to the list of nodes. smidump detects the problem by looking at
"conformance" attribute in smi_module structure. I don't find any
documentation about this. Is it the same conformance level as described
in smilint(1)? Therefore, if I load a MIB how should I test conformance
level?
- (module->conformance) && (module->conformance >= 1)
- (module->conformance) && (module->conformance > 1)
Thanks!
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