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Bug Fixes

• The tree/table widget was linking to libX under Mac OS X when it shouldn’t, causing the application to quit on startup on systems without X installed.
• A removed MIB file, or one that failed to load due to parse errors, could not be re-added without restarting the application.

Significant Changes

• Minor cosmetic changes, such as moving the icon for the filter field in the toolbar into the entry itself and platform-specific improvements.
• Several optimizations were made.
• Converted all SNMP requests to use asynchronous APIs for more immediate stops and improved GUI feedback such as status bar messages.
• Agent settings changes can now be canceled after pressing Ok without waiting for the initial request to time out.
• Improved integration of toolbar buttons with tools, such that their states are appropriate to the activity of the selected tab and/or all tabs.
• Pressing enter in the goto entry in the Tree View when the entry is blank now does nothing rather than displaying an error dialog.
• Using the Goto entry on a branch that is already open will now gather data from the branch without having to collapse and re-expand.
• Refactored several areas of code, dealing with tool interaction and implementation, towards eventual plugin support.
• Object values are now formatted according to their DISPLAY-HINT (if any) so that, for example, UTF-8 strings should display the appropriate glyphs rather than hex.
• Added TCP-MIB and UDP-MIB to the default set loaded at startup/installation.

Bug Fixes

• Trap Watch tool was displaying duplicate values in the trap details from the variable bindings, where it should have been displaying row index values.
• Clicking the refresh button in the Table View when no table had yet been scanned would result in an error.
• An “unknown variable allVarsList” error could occur in the Tree View when using the Goto entry.

Bug fixes in this release:

• The third-party widget used for trees and tables in the GUI was updated to fix a crash that primarily affected Solaris at startup.
• Memory leaks in the MIB Smithy SDK core were fixed.

MIB Views is Windows and Unix software product for network managers, SNMP users and developers. The application provides a suite of basic SNMP management applications, including a MIB Browser, Trap Watch, Table Viewer, SNMP Query and SNMP Walk tools.

The tools are based on those found in MIB Smithy, offering a low cost way for users who don’t need the MIB editing and conversion features it provides, to access and query SNMP devices on their networks. MIB Views is available for Windows, FreeBSD, Linux, Solaris SPARC and Mac OS X, and is just $95.

For more information and to download a free 15-day evaluation, see the MIB Views Product Information Page.