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The command 'snmptranslate' is used to translate between numeric and symbolic forms of OIDs. It uses the same MIB parsing routines as the commands that actually communicate with a network management agent, but can be used standalone. As such, it is a useful tool for identifying problems with reading in MIB files.

In particular, the following options may be useful in identifying problems:

       -Pw  warns about conflicting symbols
       -PW  prints more verbose warnings about other problems as well
               (in both cases, ignore the 'xmalloc' reports)
       -T   provides sub-options for various views of these entries

There are other '-P' options to control various aspects of MIB parsing. See the 'snmptranslate(1)' and 'snmpcmd(1)' man pages for more details, or the tutorial at http://www.net-snmp.org/tutorial-5/commands/snmptranslate.html

For a more rigourous validation, use a tool such as 'smilint', or the on-line interface at http://wwwsnmp.cs.utwente.nl/ietf/mibs/validate/