Vendor Certification Expressions: Expression Operators, Functions, and Global Variables › Functions and Global Variables › mapVendor Function

mapVendor Function

This function uses the value of an objectID (sysObjectID) and maps the system OID to a vendor name string. Use this function to find the vendor of a device.

Syntax

This function has the following format:

String mapVendor( ObjectID sysObjectID )

Parameters

sysObjectID

The object ID value to parse.

Return Values

Returns the string containing the mapped vendor name. If a vendor is not found, returns "".

Examples

The following expression produces the following result for an OID value of 1.3.6.2.1.2.2636.0:

Expression:

mapVendor (oid )

Result:

Juniper

The same expression produces the following result for an OID value of 1.3.6.2.1.2.1234567.0:

Result:

Unknown

Advanced Example

The following expression is taken from “System Statistics” Vendor Certification:

Model=mapVendor (sysObjectID)