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Some usage and unknown command errors resulting from a merge of the MIB Smithy tools code base into MIB Views 1.3 were corrected in this patch release.

New Features

• Added ability to save tables of main GUI trees to text or CSV files.
• Added text editor for correcting parse errors in MIB files. Double-clicking on the parse error in the Add/Remove MIBs dialog, when adding a MIB fails, launches the text editor to the line where the error occurred.

Bug Fixes

• Under some circumstances, WinXP unsets HOMEDRIVE and HOMEPATH, which would prevent MIB Views from finding its license key the default location without re-logging in. The license key is now stored in the Application Data folder by default.

MIB Smithy 4.0 is a major release with significant improvements in GUI look and feel, new features in the SNMP Tools, and usability improvements. The new feature we’re most excited about is the new compiler log. In this release, MIB Smithy breaks away from the traditional text-only log with a more task-oriented tabular design that’s more concise, has better visual cues to distinguish errors from warnings and between record types, and can be sorted to help you fix problems in the order that’s right for you. We look forward to even more workflow improvements under development for a future release. Continue reading MIB Smithy 4.0 Release

New Features

• Enabled table column reordering (drag the column headers left or right to reorder).
• Added copy-to-clipboard support to trees and tables.
• Redesigned MIB compiler log with new features such as record icons, sorting, and ability to show or hide non-dependency warnings that previously were always suppressed.
• Items in tables are now expanded to so that the striped background fills the full table width.
• Improved modal behavior of the Add/Remove MIBs dialog.
• Successful communication with an agent via the settings dialog is now required to send queries to an agent, rather than using defaults (e.g. address 127.0.0.1). A message is displayed in the status bar if an agent isn’t configured.
• Changed selection colors for tables and trees to match platform defaults.

Bug Fixes

• Removed alternates from Windows icon files that were causing lower quality versions to be displayed rather than the best version.
• No feedback was given in some circumstances (such as DISPLAY variable not being set) when connection to an X Server failed.
• An unknown variable error would occur when entering an unknown table name in the Table View, rather than the intended dialog indicating the MIB defining the table needs to be added.
• Some navigation keys would result in an unknown command error when used in the Table View when the table itself had focus.
• The get bulk button and non-repeaters/max-repetitions entries in the SNMP Query tool were not disabling/enabling property on SNMP version changes in session settings.
• An unknown command error would occur when entering text into the toolbar filter entry with the Query tab active.
• MIB Views was not matching SNMPv3 report OIDs properly or providing an error on unrecognized reports, which would allow it to think that connection was successful even though, for example, the user name was not valid.
• Windows would attempt to self-repair the MIB Views install if any of the default MIB files were removed.
• Documentation shortcuts were not being set up correctly in the Windows start menu.

Bugs fixed in this release:

• An unknown variable error could occur when using the File Tree to delete files or directories.
• Right-clicking on a directory in the File Tree would result in an unknown variable error.
• Matching of column and index names in Table Wizard entries to the lists above was not taking prefixes into consideration, which would allow adding two columns with the same name.
• Unknown command and variable errors could occur when interacting with the Index page of the Table Wizard. Also, the Columns and Index pages will now set focus to the column name field after adding a column.
• Module wizard size could shimmer after switching pages.
• Some properties of the Notification, Notification Group and Object Group workspaces were applied instead of reverted when the Revert button was pressed. This also caused files to be marked as modified when these workspaces were opened, even though nothing had changed.