Re: [libsmi] smiquery not showing correct MAX-ACCESS.

On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 01:56:18PM -0500, John Wiebe wrote:

I've been using smiquery to get various information from MIB's. However, I've found that it isn't reporting the correct MAX-ACCESS if the MAX-ACCESS is read-create, it always returns read-write.

Libsmi has internally a different understanding of access levels than the SMIv2. If you have an SMIv2 table which supports row creation, you have to mark all writable columns read-create. Libsmi instead marks them as read-write and sets a creatable flag on the table's entry node. See for example

smiquery node SNMP-VIEW-BASED-ACM-MIB::vacmAccessEntry

and check the "Creatable:" line. Since smiquery reports the internal representation (very useful for debugging), this is just consistent.

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