It’s a frustrating business, this “covert MIB files to something readable with Ruby”. Net-SNMP has it sorted with a %MIB object in perl with information on all the MIB files that it has processed.
The biggest problem I face is that I need to parse all the MIB files using smidump (which I’ve already done), and store them in memory in some half-sensible format which I can then sanity-check and insert in to a database. The sanity checking is what’s taking time.
No wonder so many people do the ‘easy’ bit of SNMP 