NAME

       libsmi - library to access SMI management information

DESCRIPTION

       This  library contains functions that allow access to SMI management information stored in
       repositories that are managed by libsmi, currently  directories  containing  SMIv1/v2  and
       SMIng MIB module files.

       The   libsmi  API  is  defined  in  smi.h.  Functions  are  documented  in  smi_config(3),
       smi_module(3), smi_node(3), smi_type(3), and smi_macro(3).

       The purpose of libsmi is to separate the weird parsing and handling of  MIB  modules  from
       management applications. MIB modules conforming to SMIv1, SMIv2 and SMIng - a new language
       for management information, developed at the Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany
       - can be handled by libsmi.

       NOTE:  SMIng  support  in the current release of libsmi is neither stable nor representing
       the work done in the IETF SMING  working  group.  It  is  based  research  efforts  at  TU
       Braunschweig and within the IRTF in 1999-2000.

EXAMPLE

       #include <stdio.h>
       #include <string.h>
       #include <smi.h>

       int main(int argc, char *argv[])
       {
           SmiNode *smiNode;
           int oidlen, first = 1;

           if (argc != 2) {
               fprintf(stderr, "Usage: smisubtree oid\n");
               exit(1);
           }

           smiInit(NULL);

           for((smiNode = smiGetNode(NULL, argv[1])) &&
                   (oidlen = smiNode->oidlen);
               smiNode && (first || smiNode->oidlen > oidlen);
               smiNode = smiGetNextNode(smiNode, SMI_NODEKIND_ANY),
                   first = 0) {

               printf("%*s%-32s\n",
                      (smiNode->oidlen - oidlen + 1) * 2, " ",
                      smiNode->name);

           };

           exit(0);
       }

FILES

       ${prefix}/include/smi.h    SMI library header file

SEE ALSO

       RFCs  2578-2580  specify  the SMIv2 standard [STD 58].  The (obsolete) SMIng specification
       has been a working document of the IRTF Network Management Working  Group  (NMRG)  (draft-
       irtf-nmrg-sming-02).

       smi.h, smi_config(3), smi_module(3), smi_node(3), smi_type(3), smi_macro(3),

AUTHOR

       (C) 1999-2001 Frank Strauss, TU Braunschweig, Germany <strauss@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de>