RE: [Mibble-users] retrieving names of fields in NOTIFICATION-TYPE(traps)

[Hall, Matthew]

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> On Behalf Of Per Cederberg
> Sent: Saturday, July 22, 2006 12:51 AM
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> Subject: Re: [Mibble-users] retrieving names of fields in 
> NOTIFICATION-TYPE(traps)
> 
> Hi Matthew,
> 
> Doing what you want to do is unfortunately a little bit 
> tricky with the current Mibble API. But luckily it has been 
> done before, so there is code to look at. Check out 
> MibWriter.printType(SnmpNotificationType, String) and 
> MibWriter.printReferenceEntry(Object).

Well I'm glad to hear that there was not some totally obvious way to do this 
that I failed to notice!

> Basically what you need to do is to iterate over all the Mib 
> value symbols, finding the ones with a type of 
> SnmpNotificationType, and then processing the list returned 
> from SnmpNotificationType.getObjects(). Each entry in that 
> list should be an ObjectIdentifierValue (depends on your MIB 
> actually), from which you get the actual symbol name with 
> oidValue.getSymbol().getName().

I'll work on this paragraph this morning and see how it all turns out.

> Hope this helps!

Thank you very much for your prompt response. I'll release a copy of this 
application once I get it working right, if anybody else is interested in using 
it. For me, it will save a lot of time in my work supporting SNMP traps from 
different devices.

> /Per

Matthew