WMI and SNMP provider setup

[Fernando Marotta]

Hello to everybody,

I'm a real newbie in the world of WMI, in particular I tried to setup the
WMI SNMP Provider as described by MSDN:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/wmisdk/wmi/
setting_up_the_wmi_snmp_environment.asp

I'm using a Win2K professional installation.
I downloaded and installed the provider (file: wmisnmp.exe), which seems to
be ok, and also downloaded and installed wmi tools,
then I've created a namespace using the following code (from MSDN):

----------------------------------------------------------------
// Load classes and instances into <\\.\root> namespace

#pragma namespace("\\\\.\\root")

[
AgentAddress( "localhost" ),
AgentReadCommunityName( "public"),
AgentWriteCommunityName( "private"),
AgentRetryCount( 1 ),
AgentRetryTimeout( 500 ),
AgentVarBindsPerPdu( 10 ),
AgentFlowControlWindowSize ( 3 )
]

instance of __Namespace
{
Name = "snmp" ;
};
----------------------------------------------------------------

using the command "mofcomp", which succeded,
then I tried to insert a MIB file I wrote (which is correct, because is used
successfully with more than one mib browser),
but the smi2smir output is the following:

>smi2smir /m 3 /a test.mib

smi2smir : Version 1.50.1085.0000 : MIB definitions compiled from "test.mib"

smi2smir : Syntax Check successful on "test.mib"

smi2smir : Semantic Check successful on "test.mib"

smi2smir : Could not load "test.mib" into the SMIR

can you help me with this, please? where am I wrong?

TIA
cheers

F.

[[MS] Tim Chen]

Do you see root\snmp\smir and root\snmp\localhost namespaces? If they are
there, could you send me your mib file and I will take a look.

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[Fernando Marotta]

I think I discovered the problem:

some of my MIB variables (expecially table columns) had names containing
"-",

removing them it works fine (but I think that the "-" character is allowed
by MIB syntax).

thanks a lot.

F.

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[[MS] Tim Chen]

"-" is allowed by MIB syntax but smi2smir does not allow it.

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