Hi, Chris,
It looks like the published MIB files and the list of MDS-supported MIBs are about the best we have for you to get the information you're looking for. By the way, only the OIDs with MAX-ACCESS set to read can be queried by an application like snmpget or snmpwalk. Non-GETable objects are just constant-like definitions.
You might try this method which I codged together as a quick and dirty method. I used a RedHat Linux box with ucd-snmp-4.2.3-1 and ucd-snmp-utils-4.2.3-1 installed.
1. Copy all the MIBs from ftp://ftp.cisco.com/pub/mibs/oid to /usr/share/snmp/mibs on the Linux machine.
2. Set up your MDS (I used 172.18.172.56) with a read-only or read-write community string (e.g. snmp-server community test group network-operator).
3. Do an SNMP walk: snmpwalk -v2c -M/usr/share/snmp/mibs -mall -OX 172.18.172.56 test 2>/dev/null 1>/tmp/out.txt
This looks like this:
system.sysDescr.0 = "Cisco SAN-OS(tm) m9200, Software (m9200-ek9-mz), Version 1.3(3), RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc2) Copyright (c) 2002-2003 by Cisco Systems, Inc. Compiled 12/29/2003 11:00:00"
system.sysObjectID.0 = OID: enterprises.cisco.ciscoModules.ciscoEntityVendortypeOIDMIB.cevMIBObjects.cevChassis.cevChassisMdsDSX9216
system.sysUpTime.sysUpTimeInstance = Timeticks: (8104467) 22:30:44.67
[snip]
The "-OX" puts instance numbers in square brackets, e.g. [12345].
4. If you want to compile a list of OIDs by number, description (which usually includes some mention of valid values), and translation, try this:
for i in $(awk -F= '{print $1}' /tmp/out.txt|awk -F[ '{print $1}' | uniq); do snmptranslate -M/usr/share/snmp/mibs -mall -Td $i; echo "**********"; done 2>/dev/null > /tmp/out2.txt
This gives something like this:
sysDescr OBJECT-TYPE
-- FROM RFC1213-MIB, SNMPv2-MIB
-- TEXTUAL CONVENTION DisplayString
SYNTAX OCTET STRING (0..255)
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS mandatory
DESCRIPTION "A textual description of the entity. This value
should include the full name and version
identification of the system's hardware type,
software operating-system, and networking
software. It is mandatory that this only contain
printable ASCII characters."
::= { iso(1) org(3) dod(6) internet(1) mgmt(2) mib-2(1) system(1) sysDescr(1) 0 }
**********
.1.3.6.1.2.1.1.2.0
sysObjectID OBJECT-TYPE
-- FROM RFC1213-MIB, SNMPv2-MIB
SYNTAX OBJECT IDENTIFIER
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS mandatory
DESCRIPTION "The vendor's authoritative identification of the
network management subsystem contained in the
entity. This value is allocated within the SMI
enterprises subtree (1.3.6.1.4.1) and provides an
easy and unambiguous means for determining `what
kind of box' is being managed. For example, if
vendor `Flintstones, Inc.' was assigned the
subtree 1.3.6.1.4.1.4242, it could assign the
identifier 1.3.6.1.4.1.4242.1.1 to its `Fred
Router'."
::= { iso(1) org(3) dod(6) internet(1) mgmt(2) mib-2(1) system(1) sysObjectID(2) 0 }
**********
[snip]
The first awk strips out the stuff before the "=" sign and the second awk takes everything before the first "[" (if there is one), so you only get one output where there are multiple instances of an object.
Hope this helps. Please unicast me at plowden@cisco.com if you want to explore this approach further. This is assuming you didn't already explore and reject this a long time ago!
Regards,
Phil Lowden
