smixlate(1)

💖 smixlate — the manual, but make it cute 💖

okay bestie, welcome to smixlate(1) from the SMI Tools collection. this is the page for the smixlate command, and we're gonna go through it together, no skimming, no skipping, promise 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

smixlate — translate SMI/SPPI identifiers

like, it takes your cryptic little identifiers and makes them speak human 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

smixlate [ -Vhm ] [ -c file ] [ -p module ] [ -l level ] module(s)

that's the whole vibe. flags in the front, modules at the back, iconic ✨

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so the smixlate program is here to translate identifiers — and especially OIDs — into a way more human readable format.

that's it. that's the whole job. it's giving translator bestie energy 💖

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

one bullet per option, exactly as many as the original, because we do NOT skip options in this house:

• -V, --version — shows you the smixlate version and then dips out. bye 👋
• -h, --help — prints a help text and exits. your lil "what do i do" button 🙈
• -r, --recursive — reports errors and warnings for recursively imported modules too. like it goes deep, recursively deep, no cap 🌀
• -c file, --config=file — reads file instead of any other (global and user) configuration file. it's the "i brought my own config, thanks" option 👑
• -p module, --preload=module — preloads the module module before reading the main module(s). lowkey useful when an incomplete main module forgot to import some definitions — we're just quietly handing it the missing pieces first 🧚
• -l level, --level=level — reports errors and warnings up to the given severity level. the smilint(1) manual page has the full description of what the error levels mean. default error level is 3. 📊
• -a, --all — replaces all OIDs, including OID prefixes. without this option, smixlate will only translate OIDs that have a corresponding notification, scalar, column, row, or table definition. so -a is the "yes, literally everything" mode 🔥
• -f, --format — preserves the input format as much as possible by inserting/removing white space characters. aesthetic preservation, we love to see it 💅
• module(s) — these are the modules to be loaded for the subsequent translation. if a module argument represents a path name (identified by containing at least one dot or slash character), it's assumed to be the exact file to read. otherwise, if a module is identified by its plain module name, it gets searched according to libsmi internal rules. see smi_config(3) for more details. so: dots/slashes = exact file, plain name = searched. iykyk 🌈

⭐ EXAMPLE ⭐

this example translates numeric OIDs in the input text into a more human readable format. watch it work:

$ echo "what is this oid? 1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.3" |
  ./smixlate -l 0 /usr/local/share/mibs/ietf/*
what is this oid? ifType
$

literally turned a mystery number into ifType in one line. ate and left no crumbs 💀✨

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

the libsmi(3) project is documented at http://www.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de/projects/libsmi/.

go read, bestie 📚

👑 AUTHORS 👑

(C) 2006-2006 J. Schoenwaelder, International University Bremen, Germany — and contributions by many other people. shoutout to the whole crew 🫶

and that's the page!! this was smixlate(1) from SMI Tools, brought to you by IUB, dated June 18, 2006 — yes the date is ancient, the manual is still iconic, periodt 💖✨🎀