.TH MBROWSE 1 "August, 25 2003"

.SH NAME
mbrowse \- SNMP MIB browser and query tool
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B mbrowse
.SH DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the
.B mbrowse
command.
This manual page was written for the Debian distribution
because the original program does not have a manual page.
.PP
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\fBmbrowse\fP 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 additional 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 \fIDetails\fP page. Its SNMP identifier
is also update on the fly in the \fIObject Identifier\fP 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 \fIget\fP or \fIwalk\fP a value, and the
write community to \fIset\fP it. Click on the right button and the
objects and their values will be displayed.

By clicking the \fISearch\fP page, you can search MIb entries by MIB
name or description.

In the \fIOptions\fP 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 \fIAdd Bookmark\fP in the
\fIBookmark\fP menu. You will be prompted a name and the bookmark will
be added to the menu. You can now click it to be positioned on the
object back. To delete a bookmark, click on \fIDelete Bookmark\fP, and
then, click on the bookmark to delete.

You can also import MIBs at runtime, by clicking \fIOpen MIB\fP in the
\fIFile\fP 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 \fI/usr/share/snmp/mibs\fP
on Debian [and also on Fedora]). Mbrowse will open the MIB at its next startup.

.SH OPTIONS
This program takes no options
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR snmpget (1),
.BR snmpwalk (1).
.BR snmpset (1).
.SH 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).

Added comment on MIB path for Fedora and removed two typos
-- Volker Fröhlich <volker27@gmx.at>
.PP
mbrowse was written by Aaron Hodgen