Unfortunatly, I've deep sixed the server I was building which used this module. I played with is a bit, so I will share what I can remember.

First you need to collect all the MIB files you are going to attempt to resolve OIDs out of. If I remember some stock mibs come with the module, which map certain trees of the OID structure, ala 3.1.2.1.6 ( I think *groan* ) which is the system sub tree.

Second you need to take those raw mibs and compile them and store them somewhere else.. I believe during the initialization of the mib object you need to define compile => '1', or something along those lines.. I know thats in the docs. Also you have to define a (i think the term is) respository. This will be where the compiled mibs are stored. I compiled all the MIBs I would need, then simply used the respository during run time, as opposed to compiling every run.

So while the code is very wrong, I will attempt a basic quasi walkthrough.

This code is wrong
First run

#!/usr/bin/perl

use SNMP::MIB::Compiler;

$raw  = '/var/tmp/mibs_files';
$proc = '/var/tmp/mib_compiler';

$mib = SNMP::MIB::Compiler->new(
   someargs => '',
);

$mib{
   'repository' => "$proc",
   'use_v1'     => '0',
   'use_v2'     => '1',
};

open(DIR,"$raw") || die "cant access dir $raw\nReason: $!\n";

for ( grep(!/^\./, readdir(DIR)) ) {
    $mib->compile("$_");
}
closedir(DIR);

## Second run

use SNMP::MIB::Compiler;

$data = '/var/tmp/mib_compiler';

$mib = SNMP::MIB::Compiler->new(
   'args' => 'blah',
);

$mib{
   repository = "$data",
};

for ( @oids_to_resolve ) {
# I think this converts numeric to text
   $name = $mib->convert($_);

# whereas this will convert a string to numeric oid.. 
   $oid = $mib->resolve_oid($_);
}

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I know the docs are tough, especially if you are unfamiliar with SNMP. The key is that respository, and precompiling the MIBs.

Happy hacking, and I apologize for lack of concrete code, etc.. I am pissed I didnt pull my code prior to losing the server :(

/* And the Creator, against his better judgement, wrote man.c */

In reply to Re: SNMP::MIB::Compiler ? by l2kashe
in thread SNMP::MIB::Compiler ? by Anonymous Monk

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