On Thu, 2009-01-08 at 12:31 -0800, Mike Ayers wrote: > > From: Larry Brown [mailto:larry.br...@dimensionnetworks.com] > > Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 11:26 AM > > > Hello all, I've read a number of articles around on snmp and have a > > fundamental theory going as to how this works at a macro > > level but need > > some confirmation. Any assistance will be greatly appreciated. > > > > As I understand it the part of the OID that is returned depends on its > > existence in the MIB. > > There is no "part of the OID". OIDs (object identifiers) are atomic. > > > I examined a couple of MIB's and none > > of them do > > more than relate an explanation of what the particular OID > > provides and > > in what format it provides it. (along with name resolution > > for the OID) > > That is all that a MIB does. It is an opaque interface description. > > > What I expected was some way of describing to the snmpd agent where to > > get the value to return. > > The information may be in a different place on every different system > that supports the MIB. For each, a subagent must be provided which responds > to the get, set, etc. queries and returns or changes the data as needed. > > > HTH, > > Mike --
Thanks Mike. So for instance net-snmp comes with an MIB for Fedora in Fedora's location of /usr/share/snmp/mibs that is the only one with (for instance) hrSWInstalled. (HOST-RESOURCES-MIB.txt::hrSWInstalled) So can I assume that this MIB and the ones it includes are comprehensive for anything my version net-snmp would support? My first inclination would be that it wouldn't be, begging the question where can I find such a comprehensive list for my version of net-snmp? TIA, Larry ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It is the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Xq1LFB _______________________________________________ Net-snmp-users mailing list Net-snmp-users@lists.sourceforge.net Please see the following page to unsubscribe or change other options: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/net-snmp-users
