gensnmptree(1)

NAME

gensnmptree – generate C and header files from a MIB description file

SYNOPSIS

gensnmptree [-dEeFfhlt] [-I directory] [-i infile] [-p prefix] [name ...]

DESCRIPTION

The gensnmptree utility is used to either generate C language tables and header files from a MIB description or to numeric OIDs from MIB descriptions. The first form is used only for maintaining the bsnmpd(1) daemon or for module writers. The second form may be used by SNMP client program writers.

If none of the options -e, -E or -t are used gensnmptree reads a MIB description from its standard input and creates two files: a C-file prefixtree.c containing a table used by bsnmpd(1) during PDU processing and a header file prefixtree.h containing appropriate declarations of the callback functions used in this table, the table itself and definitions for all enums.

The following options are available:

-d

Switch on debugging.

-E

Extract enumerations and bit constructs. In this mode the tool emits a header file that contains for each type given on the command line a C-enum definition and a preprocessor define that may be used to map values to strings.

-e

gensnmptree expects MIB variable names (only the last component) on its command line. It reads a MIB specification from standard input and for each MIB variable name emits three C preprocessor defines on its standard output:

OIDX_name: This define can be used to initialize a struct asn_oid in the following way:

const struct asn_oid oid_sysDescr = OIDX_sysDescr;
OIDLEN_name: is the length of the OID.
OID_name: is the last component of the OID.

-F

emit definitions for C-functions includeable in a C-file that do some basic stuff on enums like value checking and conversion between value and strings.

-f

emit definitions for inline C-functions that do some basic stuff on enums like value checking and conversion between value and strings.

-h

Print a short help page.

-I directory

Add the named directory to the include path just before the standard include directories.

-i infile

Read from the named file instead of standard input.

-l

Generate local preprocessor includes. This is used for bootstrapping bsnmpd(1).

-t

Instead of normal output print the resulting tree.

-p prefix

Prefix the file names and the table name with prefix.

MIBS

The syntax of the MIB description file can formally be specified as follows:

 file := top | top file
 top := tree | typedef | include
 tree := head elements ')'
 entry := head ':' index STRING elements ')'
 leaf := head type STRING ACCESS ')'
 column := head type ACCESS ')'
 type := BASETYPE | BASETYPE '|' subtype | enum | bits
 subtype := STRING
 enum := ENUM '(' value ')'
 bits := BITS '(' value ')'
 value := INT STRING | INT STRING value
 head := '(' INT STRING
 elements := EMPTY | elements element
 element := tree | leaf | column
 index := type | index type
 typedef := 'typedef' STRING type
 include := 'include' filespec
 filespec := '"' STRING '"' | '<' STRING '>'

BASETYPE specifies a SNMP data type and may be one of

NULL
INTEGER
INTEGER32 (same as INTEGER)
UNSIGNED32 (same as GAUGE)
OCTETSTRING
IPADDRESS
OID
TIMETICKS
COUNTER
GAUGE
COUNTER64

ACCESS specifies the accessibility of the MIB variable (which operation can be performed) and is one of

GET
SET

INT is a decimal integer and STRING is any string starting with a letter or underscore and consisting of letters, digits, underscores and minuses, that is not one of the keywords.

The typedef directive associates a type with a single name.

The include directive is replaced by the contents of the named file.

EXAMPLES

The following MIB description describes the system group:

include "tc.def"
typedef AdminStatus ENUM (
	1 up
	2 down
)
(1 internet
  (2 mgmt
    (1 mib-2
      (1 system
        (1 sysDescr OCTETSTRING op_system_group GET)
        (2 sysObjectId OID op_system_group GET)
        (3 sysUpTime TIMETICKS op_system_group GET)
        (4 sysContact OCTETSTRING op_system_group GET SET)
        (5 sysName OCTETSTRING op_system_group GET SET)
        (6 sysLocation OCTETSTRING op_system_group GET SET)
        (7 sysServices INTEGER op_system_group GET)
        (8 sysORLastChange TIMETICKS op_system_group GET)
        (9 sysORTable
          (1 sysOREntry : INTEGER op_or_table
            (1 sysORIndex INTEGER)
            (2 sysORID OID GET)
            (3 sysORDescr OCTETSTRING GET)
            (4 sysORUpTime TIMETICKS GET)
        ))
      )
    )
  )
)

AUTHORS

Hartmut Brandt ⟨[email protected]⟩