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6 mbrowse - SNMP MIB browser and query tool
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9 mbrowse
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12 This manual page documents briefly the mbrowse command. This manual
13 page was written for the Debian distribution because the original pro‐
14 gram does not have a manual page.
15 mbrowse is a SNMP MIB browser tool. It relies on GTK+ and net-snmp. It
17 is able to display as a tree view the content of a MIB, and to query
18 MIB objects on any machine through get, set and walk methods.
19 It includes a search function, bookmarking of MIB entries, ability to
21 support additional MIBs, ...
22 Once mbrowse is open, it displays the MIB tree. You can browse this
24 tree like any other one. Once you have selected a MIB object, you can
25 get details about it by going in the Details page. Its SNMP identifier
26 is also update on the fly in the Object Identifier field. You can also
27 directly enter the object identifier, and the tree will be browsed to
28 the right place.
29 To query a SNMP object, select it, enter the host name (IP address or
31 DNS entry) of the machine you want to query in the right field. Also
32 enter the read community to get or walk a value, and the write commu‐
33 nity to set it. Click on the right button and the objects and their
34 values will be displayed.
35 By clicking the Search page, you can search MIb entries by MIB name or
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38 In the Options page, you can set a few general options: whether to save
40 the session on exit of the program, set the style of the tree view, the
41 version of SNMP to use, and a few SNMP-related values.
42 You can also use bookmarks to quickly find SNMP objects. Select the
44 object you want to save, and click on Add Bookmark in the Bookmark
45 menu. You will be prompted a name and the bookmark will be added to the
46 menu. You can now click it to be positioned on the object back. To
47 delete a bookmark, click on Delete Bookmark, and then, click on the
48 bookmark to delete.
49 You can also import MIBs at runtime, by clicking Open MIB in the File
51 menu. Select the MIB file in the dialog box and the values contained in
52 the file will be integrated in the tree view. For this MIB to be auto‐
53 matically opened at startup, you must put the MIB file in net-nsmp MIB
54 files directory (usually /usr/share/snmp/mibs on Debian [and also on
55 Fedora]). Mbrowse will open the MIB at its next startup.
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62 snmpget(1), snmpwalk(1). snmpset(1).
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65 This manual page was written by Clément Stenac <zorglub@via.ecp.fr>,
66 for the Debian GNU/Linux project (but may be used by others).
67 Added comment on MIB path for Fedora and removed two typos -- Volker
69 Fröhlich <volker27@gmx.at>
70 mbrowse was written by Aaron Hodgen
72 August, 25 2003 MBROWSE(1)