Re: [tkined] error message question

Doug Hughes (Doug.Hughes@Eng.Auburn.EDU)
Thu, 9 Jul 1998 08:13:56 -0500

>Hi all, newbie here:
>
>Compiling the cisco mibs, I get no errors other than:
>
>**
>CISCO-FLASH-MIB-V1SMI.my: no parent ciscoFlashMIBTrapPrefixTraps for node
>ciscoFlashCopyCompletionTrap
>**
>
>There's about 40 or so of these types of errors.... all suggesting there is
>no parent <x> for node <y> -- though this is *never* for any ordinary OID,
>it is *always* a "no parent <x>Traps for node <y>". (notice the *Traps*).
>
>So, I went looking at those mib files, and I note that
>ciscoFlashCopyCompletionTrap is defined as:
>
>**
>ciscoFlashCopyCompletionTrap TRAP-TYPE
>-- Reverse mappable trap
> ENTERPRISE ciscoFlashMIBTrapPrefix
> VARIABLES {
> ciscoFlashCopyStatus }
>-- Status
>-- mandatory
> DESCRIPTION
> "A ciscoFlashCopyCompletionTrap is sent at the
> completion of a flash copy operation if such a trap
> was requested when the operation was initiated."
> ::= 1
>**
>
>-- there is no specific mention of any parent called:
>"ciscoFlashMIBTrapPrefixTraps" (as per the error message), though there is
>a mention of: "ENTERPRISE ciscoFlashMIBTrapPrefix" (notice it does not end
>in "Traps"). Is scotty appending the word "traps" onto the end of it? This
>is probably a newbie question, and I'm showing my ignorance here...
>
>thanks..
>

I have found that in general it is best to ignore all files ending in -V1SMI.my
and instead use the ones that end in MIB.my

You'll be much happier that way.
(and it works a lot better)

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Doug Hughes					Engineering Network Services
System/Net Admin  				Auburn University
			doug@eng.auburn.edu





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