MIB Smithy

Querying Group Properties

The following information applies to both OBJECT-GROUPs, which define sets of related OBJECT-TYPEs, and NOTIFICATION-GROUPs, which define sets of related NOTIFICATION-TYPEs.

Syntax:

% dbcmd get property ?property ...? group

Returns:

• The value of the specified property or properties (see below).

Properties:

-comments

Returns the textual comments associated with record.

-container

Returns the fully-qualified name of the record in which the queried record is contained. This property equivalent to -fullname for the container record, or for the queried record with the last envelope stripped off.

-description

Returns the body of text corresponding to the DESCRIPTION field of the OBJECT-GROUP or NOTIFICATION-GROUP record.

-fullname

Returns the fully-qualified name of the record in the form accepted by the SDK as a search query. For this record type, that is the file handle, the module name and the record name joined together with a ! (exclamation point), as in @File2!SNMPv2-MIB!snmpCommunityGroup.

-fulloid

Returns the absolute (or as close as possible) OID value for the record, in dotted numeric notation (e.g. 1.3.6....). If the OID is not able to be resolved all the way to one of the root nodes (ccitt, iso, joint-iso-ccitt), due to one or more dependent modules not being present in the database, then the first component will be that of the descriptor that could not be resolved.

-members

Returns a list of identifiers or OID values corresponding to the list of OBJECT-TYPEs or NOTIFICATION-TYPEs identified by the OBJECTS (OBJECT-GROUP) or NOTIFICATIONS (NOTIFICATION-GROUP) fields.

-name

Returns the unqualified name of the OBJECT-GROUP or NOTIFICATION-GROUP record.

-oid

Returns the OID value for the record, in dot-delimited notation, with the module name and name portion of name-and-number forms (if any) stripped out. That is, a.1.2.3 will be returned even if the OID value is declared in the ASN.1 as { EX-MIB.a b(1) c(2) 3 }.

-oidsuffix

Returns a dot-delimited list of "extra" subidentifiers specified in the record search string that were not part of the matched portion that pointed to this record. e.g., the -oidsuffix property for sysDescr.0 is 0.

-reference

Returns the body of text corresponding to the REFERENCE field of the OBJECT-GROUP or NOTIFICATION-GROUP record.

-status

Returns the value of the STATUS field for a NOTIFICATION-GROUP record.

-subids

Returns a list of integers representing the next subidentifier for each record whose OID values are assigned immediately subordinate to the OID value of the record search string. For example, if records assigned the OID values x.1 and x.2, then the -subids property for x is the list { 1 2 }.

-subnodes

Returns a list of records whose OID values are assigned immediately subordinate to the OID value of the record search string and that are defined in the same module. An element may be returned as a relative OID for "implicit" node definitions (e.g., assuming records are assigned values x.1.1 and x.1.2, but none are defined for x.1, then the result will include the value x.1).

-value

Equivalent to -oid for get operations.

-valuedecl

Returns the "as-declared" OID value for the record, in dot-delimited notation. If the first component is specified using module.descriptor form it is returned as module:descriptor. That is, SNMPv2-MIB:system.1 will be returned if the OID value is declared in the ASN.1 it as { SNMPv2-MIB.system 1 }.