smiquery(1)

💅 smiquery(1) — the SMI Tools one

okay so bestie, welcome to smiquery 😌 this is a page from SMI Tools, and it's genuinely one of those lil tools that does one thing and does it slayfully 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

smiquery — query single information from SMI MIB modules 🦋

like, literally one item at a time. no cap.

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

smiquery [ -Vh ] [ -p module ] command name

that's the whole vibe. short, iconic, to the point 💅

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👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

okay so the smiquery program is used to query information on a single item from an MIB module 💖 for example module meta information, or a single type definition. that's it. that's the gig. lowkey perfect for when you're digging through MIBs and you just want one answer instead of the entire lore dump 🫶

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -V, --version — shows the smiquery version and then exits, bye 👋
• -h, --help — shows a help text and exits 🧚 the help text lists all available commands, so if you're lost, that's your girl fr fr
• -p module, --preload module — preloads the module module before reading the main module 👀 this may be helpful if an incomplete main module misses to import some definitions. like giving it a little study guide before the exam 🍓

🦋 and then the actual command 🦋

• command name — this specifies the kind of information to retrieve and the item to retrieve 💜 the kinds are: module, imports, revisions, node, parent, compliance, index, members, children, type, or macro 🌈 and name is the item itself.

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🔍 where does it even look tho

the module in question is searched along a path 🌸 that path is initialized by the SMIPATH environment variable, or by /usr/share/libsmi/mibs if SMIPATH is not set ✨

and file extensions? bestie, they matter:

• files with a .sming extension are expected to be (old-style!) SMIng module files 💀 yes, old-style. we don't judge.
• files with a .my extension or without any extension are expected to be SMIv1/v2 module files 🫶

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🎀 EXAMPLE 🎀

this example queries for information on the node ifNumber defined in the module IF-MIB 🦋 watch her work:

$ smiquery node IF-MIB::ifNumber
     MibNode: IF-MIB::ifNumber
      OID: 1.3.6.1.2.1.2.1
     Type: Integer32
 Declaration: OBJECT-TYPE
    NodeKind: scalar
   Access: read-only
   Status: current
 Description: The number of network interfaces (regardless of their
        current state) present on this system.

that output? ate. no crumbs. 🔥

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

the libsmi(3) project is documented at http://www.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de/projects/libsmi/ 💖 go read it, iykyk 👑

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💜 AUTHOR 💜

(C) 1999-2004 F. Strauss, TU Braunschweig, Germany <strauss@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de> — iconic behavior, honestly 👏

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and yes bestie, if you ever forget any of this, just hit -h and it'll list every command for you 😌 main character energy from a manpage, we love to see it.

okay that's the whole page!! 🌸 this one came from IBR and it's dated August 10, 2004 — yes she's vintage, and yes she still serves 💅✨ go query something, bestie 🫶