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Re: [MIB-DOCTORS] Recommended tools for validating MIBs

Jean Mahoney <jmahoney@amsl.com> Wed, 28 February 2024 21:23 UTC

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Subject: Re: [MIB-DOCTORS] Recommended tools for validating MIBs
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Hi Mike,

Thanks for the pointers!

On 2/25/24 1:31 PM, Mike MacFaden wrote:
> Hi Jean,
> 
> I spoke with David Perkins last week, he stated he would be willing to 
> place his tools (smicng) in github sans license checking code  if there 
> is still an interest in continuing to use them. 

[JM] If smicng could be hosted on author-tools.ietf.org, would David be 
willing to have it hosted there? Is there enough activity on MIBs in the 
IETF to offer something like smicng on author-tools?


> The other tool used to 
> validate SMIv2 syntax was smilint, part of libsmi package 
> https://www.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de/projects/libsmi/people.html 
> <https://www.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de/projects/libsmi/people.html>.

[JM] I see that www.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de also provides an online validator:
https://www.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de/projects/libsmi/tools/

We'll also check this out.

Thanks!
Jean


> 
> Mike MacFaden
> 
> 
>> On Feb 23, 2024, at 07:53, Jean Mahoney <jmahoney@amsl.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi MIB Doctors,
>>
>> The RFC Production Center is overhauling its tool chain, and we're 
>> wondering if you could provide pointers to any newer tools for MIB 
>> validation. The wiki page that discusses tools [1] seems to be 
>> outdated. For example, SMICng, which is what we have been using, is no 
>> longer supported (e.g., its website [2] has been down for at least a 
>> year).
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Jean Mahoney
>> RPC Associate Director
>>
>> PS The datatracker page for MIB Doctors [3] has some broken links to 
>> trac.tools.ietf.org.
>>
>> [1] https://wiki.ietf.org/en/group/ops/mib-review-tools
>> [2] http://www.snmpinfo.com
>> [3] https://datatracker.ietf.org/group/mibdoctors/about/
>>
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