mbrowse(1)
NAME
mbrowse - SNMP MIB browser and query tool
SYNOPSIS
mbrowse
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the mbrowse command. This manual
page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.
mbrowse is a SNMP MIB browser tool. It relies on GTK+ and net-snmp. It
is able to display as a tree view the content of a MIB, and to query
MIB objects on any machine through get, set and walk methods.
It includes a search function, bookmarking of MIB entries, ability to
support additionnal MIBs, ...
Once mbrowse is open, it displays the MIB tree. You can browse this
tree like any other one. Once you have selected a MIB object, you can
get details about it by going in the Details page. Its SNMP identifier
is also update on the fly in the Object Identifier field. You can also
directly enter the object identifier, and the tree will be browsed to
the right place.
To query a SNMP object, select it, enter the host name (IP address or
DNS entry) of the machine you want to query in the right field. Also
enter the read community to get or walk a value, and the write community to set it. Click on the right button and the objects and their
values will be displayed.
By clicking the Search page, you can search MIb entries by MIB name or
description.
In the Options page, you can set a few general options: whether to save
the session on exit of the program, set the style of the tree view, the
version of SNMP to use, and a few SNMP-related values.
You can also use bookmarks to quickly find SNMP objects. Select the
object you want to save, and click on Add Bookmark in the Bookmark
menu. You will be prompted a name and the bookmark will be added to the
menu. You can now click it to be positionned on the object back. To
delete a bookmark, click on Delete Bookmark, and then, click on the
bookmark to delete.
You can also import MIBs at runtime, by clicking Open MIB in the File
menu. Select the MIB file in the dialog box and the values contained in
the file will be integrated in the tree view. For this MIB to be automatically opened at startup, you must put the MIB file in net-nsmp MIB
files directory (usually /usr/share/snmp/mibs on Debian). Mbrowse will
open the MIB at its next startup.
OPTIONS
This program takes no options
SEE ALSO
snmpget(1), snmpwalk(1). snmpset(1).
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Clément Stenac <zorglub@via.ecp.fr>,
for the Debian GNU/Linux project (but may be used by others).
- mbrowse was written by Aaron Hodgen