Re: [tkined] seeing text strings in mibtree?

Marty Leisner (leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com)
Thu, 08 Apr 1999 11:00:19 -0400

I hacked up the mib definition and defined these to be DisplayString's.

But the asciiz structure seems to be inferred (DisplayString is just
OctetString).

Thanks...
>
> >>>>> Marty Leisner writes:
>
> Marty> In mibtree, I see:
>
> Marty> prtConsoleDisplayBufferText.1.1 : 50:4F:57:45:52:53:41:56:45:20:4F:4E
>
> Marty> which is pretty non-useful if you want to understand the
> Marty> text...
>
> Marty> ucd-snmp-3.6.1 snmpwalk shows:
>
> Marty> prtConsoleDisplayBufferText.1.1 = "READY"
>
> Scotty in general relies on the MIB definition. The Printer-MIB (I
> guess this is what you are talking about) defines the SYNTAX of
> prtConsoleDisplayBufferText as OCTET STRING (SIZE(0..255)). Hence,
> scotty displays the value in hex since an OCTET STRING may carry
> arbitrary binary data.
>
> (This object will probably never carry binary data. Something like
> DisplayString would probably a more appropriate data type.)
>
> In scotty 2.1.X, the SNMP_Walk procedure in .../library/snmp.tcl is
> called to do MIB walks. You can modify it do convert OCTET STRING
> values into printable ASCII strings - but you will get strange results
> on some other MIB objects that contain binary data.
>
> Juergen
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