smilint(1)


NAME

   smilint - syntax and semantic checks of SMIv1/v2 and SPPI modules

SYNOPSIS

   smilint  [ -Vhersm ] [ -c file ] [ -p module ] [ -l level ] [ -i error-
   pattern ] module(s)

DESCRIPTION

   The smilint program is used to check MIB  or  PIB  modules  for  syntax
   errors  and  semantics  at  some degree.  SMIv1/v2 style MIB modules as
   well as SPPI PIB modules are supported.

   The rules that smilint is based on are taken from RFC  1155,  RFC  1212
   and RFC 1215 for SMIv1, RFCs 2578-2580 for SMIv2, RFC 3159 for SPPI.

OPTIONS

   -V, --version
          Show the smilint version and exit.

   -h, --help
          Show a help text and exit.

   -e, --error-list
          Show a list of all known error messages and exit. Error messages
          can have associated tags, shown in braces at  the  end  of  each
          line.  The tags can be used with the -i option to ignore certain
          error messages.

   -r, --recursive
          Report  errors  and  warnings  also  for  recursively   imported
          modules.

   -s, --severity
          Show the error severity in brackets before error messages.

   -m, --error-names
          Show the error names in braces before error messages.

   -c file, --config=file
          Read  file  instead of any other (global and user) configuration
          file.

   -p module, --preload=module
          Preload the module module before  reading  the  main  module(s).
          This  may  be  helpful  if  an  incomplete main module misses to
          import some definitions.

   -l level, --level=level
          Report errors and warnings up to the given severity level.   See
          below  for  a description of the error levels. The default error
          level is 3.

   -i prefix, --ignore=prefix
          Ignore all errors that have a tag which matches prefix.  A  list
          of  error  tags  can be retrieved by calling smilint with the -e
          option.

   module(s)
          These are the modules  to  be  checked.  If  a  module  argument
          represents  a  path  name (identified by containing at least one
          dot or slash character), this is assumed to be the exact file to
          read.  Otherwise,  if a module is identified by its plain module
          name, it is searched according to  libsmi  internal  rules.  See
          smi_config(3) for more details.

ERROR AND WARNING LEVELS

   All  generated  error  and warning messages have an associated severity
   level.  The actual severity levels are:

   0  Internal error, no recovery possible. Examples are memory allocation
      failures.  Errors  of  this  level  usually cause the application to
      abort.

   1  Major SMI/SPPI error, recovery somehow  possible  but  may  lead  to
      severe  problems.  Examples  are  lexically unexpected characters or
      unknown keywords. Errors of this  kind  usually  lead  to  follow-on
      errors.

   2  SMI/SPPI  error which is probably tolerated by some implementations.
      Examples are MIB/PIB modules which  mix  constructs  from  different
      SMI/SPPI versions.

   3  SMI/SPPI  error  which  is likely tolerated by many implementations.
      Examples are misplaced SMIv2 MODULE-IDENTITY  invocations  or  SMIv2
      textual conventions derived from other textual conventions.

   4  Something which is not strictly an error but which is recommended to
      be changed. Warnings of this level are usually considered during MIB
      reviews.

   5  Something  that  is  basically  correct  but might be problematic in
      certain environments or usage scenarios. Examples are warnings  that
      identifiers  only  differ  in  case or that type definitions are not
      used within the defining module.

   6  Messages of this level are auxiliary notices. Examples are  messages
      that point to a previous definition in case of a redefinition.

   Higher  levels  are  currently not used and lead to the same effects as
   level 6 does. Note that errors up to level 3 are errors  violating  the
   specifications  and  must  be  fixed  by  the  responsible  author. The
   warnings generated with level 4  should  be  considered  during  normal
   MIB/PIB reviews.

EXAMPLE

   This  example  checks the file RMON2-MIB in the current directory (note
   that the `./' prefix ensures this). The error level is raised to 6  and
   warnings  that  claim about identifier names that exceed a length of 32
   characters are suppressed.

     $ smilint -l 6 -i namelength-32 ./RMON2-MIB
     ./RMON2-MIB:3935: unexpected type restriction
     ./RMON2-MIB:3936: unexpected type restriction
     ./RMON2-MIB:3937: unexpected type restriction
     ./RMON2-MIB:3938: unexpected type restriction
     ./RMON2-MIB:3939: unexpected type restriction
     ./RMON2-MIB:3940: unexpected type restriction
     ./RMON2-MIB:4164: scalar object must not have a `read-create' access value

SEE ALSO

   The  libsmi(3)   project   is   documented   at   http://www.ibr.cs.tu-
   bs.de/projects/libsmi/.   Other  commonly used MIB checkers are mosy(1)
   and smicng(1).

AUTHORS

   (C) 1999-2004 F. Strauss, TU Braunschweig, Germany  <strauss@ibr.cs.tu-
   bs.de>
   (C)    1999-2002    J.    Schoenwaelder,   TU   Braunschweig,   Germany
   <schoenw@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de>
   (C) 2002-2003 J. Schoenwaelder, University of Osnabrueck, Germany
   (C)  2003-2004  J.  Schoenwaelder,  International  University   Bremen,
   Germany
   (C) 2001-2002 T. Klie, TU Braunschweig, Germany <tklie@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de>
   (C) 2002 M. Bunkus, TU Braunschweig, Germany <bunkus@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de>
   and contributions by many other people.





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