libsmi(3)						SMI Management Information Library						 libsmi(3)

NAME

       libsmi - library to access SMI management information

DESCRIPTION

       This  library  contains	functions  that allow access to SMI management information stored in repositories that are managed by libsmi, cur-
       rently directories containing SMIv1/v2 and SMIng MIB module files.

       The libsmi API is defined in smi.h. Functions are documented in smi_config(3), smi_module(3), smi_node(3), smi_type(3), and smi_macro(3).

       The purpose of libsmi is to separate the weird parsing and handling of MIB modules from management applications. MIB modules conforming	to
       SMIv1, SMIv2 and SMIng - a new language for management information, developed at the Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany - can be
       handled by libsmi.

       NOTE: SMIng support in the current release of libsmi is neither stable nor representing the work done in the IETF SMING working	group.	It
       is based research efforts at TU Braunschweig and within the IRTF in 1999-2000.

EXAMPLE

       #include <stdio.h>
       #include <string.h>
       #include <smi.h>

       int main(int argc, char *argv[])
       {
	   SmiNode *smiNode;
	   int oidlen, first = 1;

	   if (argc != 2) {
	       fprintf(stderr, "Usage: smisubtree oid
");
	       exit(1);
	   }

	   smiInit(NULL);

	   for((smiNode = smiGetNode(NULL, argv[1])) &&
		   (oidlen = smiNode->oidlen);
	       smiNode && (first || smiNode->oidlen > oidlen);
	       smiNode = smiGetNextNode(smiNode, SMI_NODEKIND_ANY),
		   first = 0) {

	       printf("%*s%-32s
",
		      (smiNode->oidlen - oidlen + 1) * 2, " ",
		      smiNode->name);

	   };

	   exit(0);
       }

FILES

       /usr/include/smi.h    SMI library header file

SEE ALSO

       RFCs  2578-2580	specify  the  SMIv2 standard [STD 58].	The (obsolete) SMIng specification has been a working document of the IRTF Network
       Management Working Group (NMRG) (draft-irtf-nmrg-sming-02).

       smi.h, smi_config(3), smi_module(3), smi_node(3), smi_type(3), smi_macro(3),

AUTHOR

       (C) 1999-2001 Frank Strauss, TU Braunschweig, Germany <strauss@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de>

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								  August 16, 2001							 libsmi(3)