smiquery(1)							     SMI Tools							       smiquery(1)

NAME

       smiquery - query single information from SMI MIB modules

SYNOPSIS

       smiquery [ -Vh ] [ -p module ] command name

DESCRIPTION

       The  smiquery program is used to query information on a single item from an MIB module, e.g. module meta information or a single type defi-
       nition.

OPTIONS

       -V, --version
	      Show the smiquery version and exit.

       -h, --help
	      Show a help text and exit. The help text lists all available commands.

       -p module, --preload module
	      Preload the module module before reading the main module. This may be helpful if an incomplete main module  misses  to  import  some
	      definitions.

       command name
	      This  specifies the kind of information to retrieve (module, imports, revisions, node, parent, compliance, index, members, children,
	      type, or macro) and the item to retrieve.

       The module in question is searched along a path, which is initialized by the SMIPATH environment variable or by /usr/share/mibs if  SMIPATH
       is not set. Files with a .sming extension are expected to be (old-style!) SMIng module files. Files with a .my or without any extension are
       expected to be SMIv1/v2 module files.

EXAMPLE

       This example queries for information on the node ifNumber defined in the module IF-MIB.

	 $ smiquery node IF-MIB::ifNumber
	      MibNode: IF-MIB::ifNumber
	       OID: 1.3.6.1.2.1.2.1
	      Type: Integer32
	  Declaration: OBJECT-TYPE
	     NodeKind: scalar
	    Access: read-only
	    Status: current
	  Description: The number of network interfaces (regardless of their
		 current state) present on this system.

SEE ALSO

       The libsmi(3) project is documented at http://www.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de/projects/libsmi/.

AUTHOR

       (C) 1999-2004 F. Strauss, TU Braunschweig, Germany <strauss@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de>

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								  August 10, 2004						       smiquery(1)