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Significant Changes (MIB Smithy)

• The “smicheck” command line tool has a new -I option for specifying directories that should be automatically scanned for dependencies based on a module’s imports. Unlike the -M option, only those files that are required will be loaded and they won’t be validated directly, instead being used to more thoroughly validate the importing module(s).
• Menus whose functions are the same as those on the toolbar now display icons matching those in the toolbar.- (3.0.1 Core/SDK) Added support for most of the tnm array variables when using the Scotty compatibility package.

Significant Changes (MIB Smithy SDK)

• Made SNMP version keywords for Scotty session configuration case insensitive.
• Scotty compatibility package(s) will attempt to locate the MIB Smithy license key if the SMITHY_LICENSE_FILE environment variable is not set.
• Added SNMP session “wait” command for waiting for all or a particular pending request to time out or receive a response.

Miscellaneous Bug Fixes (MIB Smithy SDK)

• An internal flag was not being set for some of the Scotty-style SNMP request interfaces, resulting in the SDK’s normal callback form being used where Scotty-style % substitution should be.
• Improved compatibility with Scotty 2.x by only adding module name to identifiers (as returned by e.g. ‘mib name’) if emulating 3.0.

MIB Smithy 3.0 is a new major release containing a number of important new features, including support for designing, editing and validating PIB (Policy Information Base) modules for the COPS (Common Open Policy Service) protocol. Also included are new output and preview formats and GUI improvements for speed in various tables, lists and trees as well as sorting. Usability improvements various SNMP tools have also been made, and a new “mibinfo” command line tool for querying properties of MIB/PIB modules was added. Continue reading MIB Smithy 3.0 and SDK 3.0 Release

A small number of error and warning messages had invalid argument counts or format codes, which could lead to a crash. These have been corrected with measures taken to make sure they are caught in the future.

The correction to -syntaxdecl/-write-syntaxdecl API output in MIB Smithy SDK 2.4.9 introduced a bug in MIB Smithy whereby an error would be produced when attempting to generate XML or SMI output for variations without SYNTAX/WRITE-SYNTAX fields.

Bug Fixes (MIB Smithy)

• An error could occur when copying a variation record due the above in addition to an incorrect option being specified.
• XML output was not being encoded in UTF-8, which (due to the lack of encoding specification in the header) could render the output invalid if non-UTF-8 characters were in comments. The output is now encoded in UTF-8 and UTF-8 is specified as the encoding in the header (just in case, since it is the default).

Bug Fixes (MIB Smithy SDK)

• Setting a variation’s WRITE-SYNTAX property (-write-syntax) was taking its value from the -syntax option instead, deleting it if -syntax wasn’t specified.
• Querying a variation’s -syntaxdecl or -write-syntaxdecl properties, when none was configured, would return ‘syntax “”‘ rather than an empty string as specified in the documentation.