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| .TH VARIABLES 5 "02 Mar 1999" VVERSIONINFO "Net-SNMP" |
| .UC 4 |
| .SH NAME |
| variables - Format of specifying variable names to SNMP tools. |
| .SH SYNOPSIS |
| system.sysdescr.0 |
| .SH DESCRIPTION |
| Variable names are in the format of Object Identifiers (ASN.1). There are |
| several methods of representation. Each variable name is given in the format of A.B.C.D..., |
| where A, B, C, and D are subidentifiers in one of two forms of notation. |
| Each subidentifier may be encoded as a decimal integer, or a symbol as found in |
| the RFC1066 MIB. The case of the symbols is not significant. |
| .br |
| If there is no leading "." in the variable name, the name will be formed |
| as if having been preceded with "iso.org.dod.internet.mgmt.mib.". A "." must |
| be placed before the first variable if the user is to fully specify the name. |
| For example: |
| .PP |
| .I 1.1.0 system.sysDescr.0 and 1.sysDescr.0 |
| .PP |
| all refer to the same variable name. Likewise: |
| .PP |
| .I .1.3.6.1.2.1.1.1.0 .iso.org.dod.internet.mgmt.mib.system.sysdescr.0 .1.3.6.1.2.1.1.sysdescr.0 |
| .PP |
| All refer to the same variable name. |
| .PP |
| The description of the variables in the MIB is given in the set of MIB |
| files defined by the MIBS environment variable (or the default list |
| defined at compilation time) and the MIB files in the |
| DATADIR/snmp/mibs directory (or the MIBDIRS environment variable). |
| .SH "SEE ALSO" |
| RFC 1065, RFC 1066, RFC 1067, ISO IS 8824(ASN.1) |
| .SH BUGS |
| The parser of the MIB files file is not expected to handle bizarre |
| (although correct) interpretations of the ASN.1 notation. |
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