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VARIABLES(5)                                      Net-SNMP                                      VARIABLES(5)



NAME
           variables - Format of specifying variable names to SNMP tools.

SYNOPSIS
           system.sysdescr.0

DESCRIPTION
       Variable  names are in the format of Object Identifiers (ASN.1).  There are several methods of repre-sentation. representation.
       sentation. Each variable name is given in the format of A.B.C.D..., where A, B, C, and D are subiden-tifiers subidentifiers
       tifiers  in one of two forms of notation.  Each subidentifier may be encoded as a decimal integer, or
       a symbol as found in the RFC1066 MIB.  The case of the symbols is not significant.
       If there is no leading "." in the variable name, the name will be formed as if having  been  preceded
       with "iso.org.dod.internet.mgmt.mib.".  A "." must be placed before the first variable if the user is
       to fully specify the name.  For example:

       1.1.0 system.sysDescr.0 and 1.sysDescr.0

       all refer to the same variable name.  Likewise:

       .1.3.6.1.2.1.1.1.0 .iso.org.dod.internet.mgmt.mib.system.sysdescr.0 .1.3.6.1.2.1.1.sysdescr.0

       All refer to the same variable name.

       The description of the variables in the MIB is given in the set of MIB  files  defined  by  the  MIBS
       environment  variable  (or  the  default  list  defined at compilation time) and the MIB files in the
       /usr/share/snmp/mibs directory (or the MIBDIRS environment variable).

SEE ALSO
       RFC 1065, RFC 1066, RFC 1067, ISO IS 8824(ASN.1)

BUGS
       The parser of the MIB files file is not expected to handle bizarre (although correct) interpretations
       of the ASN.1 notation.





4th Berkeley Distribution                        02 Mar 1999                                    VARIABLES(5)