Re: [c-nsp] Nexus OIDs

2017-03-14 Thread Lee
On 3/13/17, Paul Koch wrote: > On Mon, 27 Feb 2017 14:05:24 -0500 > Lee wrote: > >> ... >> I can almost understand the people that insist on using OIDs instead >> of names for polling, but not using names it makes it somewhere >> between difficult &

Re: [c-nsp] Nexus OIDs

2017-03-14 Thread Paul Koch
On Tue, 14 Mar 2017 12:43:31 + Nick Hilliard wrote: > Paul Koch wrote: > > We only get mibs directly from vendors (via customers), not from free > > downloads sites, which are usually so outdated they are useless. We also > > fix all the syntax errors in vendor mibs before

Re: [c-nsp] Nexus OIDs

2017-03-14 Thread Nick Hilliard
Paul Koch wrote: > Although recently we did come across a real dopey main stream networking > vendor who's programmers don't seem to understand that once a mib is > released, and devices deployed, the mib is 'set in stone' and you can't just > make random changes to it, but they did in a massive

Re: [c-nsp] Nexus OIDs

2017-03-14 Thread Nick Hilliard
Paul Koch wrote: > We only get mibs directly from vendors (via customers), not from free > downloads sites, which are usually so outdated they are useless. We also fix > all the syntax errors in vendor mibs before including them in our > repository. We can't fix definition errors though (e.g.

Re: [c-nsp] Nexus OIDs

2017-03-14 Thread Paul Koch
On Tue, 14 Mar 2017 11:56:08 + Nick Hilliard wrote: > Paul Koch wrote: > > Yer, OID numbers are "only" meant to be used under the hood. People > > should really be using MIB module/object names. > > only if you like nondeterministic snmp. Hmm, odd comment. Don't

Re: [c-nsp] Nexus OIDs

2017-03-14 Thread Nick Hilliard
Paul Koch wrote: > Yer, OID numbers are "only" meant to be used under the hood. People should > really be using MIB module/object names. only if you like nondeterministic snmp. You need to be enormously careful what ends up in your MIB pile if you intend object names to work reliably. Nick

Re: [c-nsp] Nexus OIDs

2017-03-13 Thread Paul Koch
On Mon, 27 Feb 2017 14:05:24 -0500 Lee wrote: > ... > I can almost understand the people that insist on using OIDs instead > of names for polling, but not using names it makes it somewhere > between difficult & impossible to figure out from an snmpwalk which > mib variables one

Re: [c-nsp] Nexus OIDs

2017-02-27 Thread Peter Rathlev
On Mon, 2017-02-27 at 09:07 -0600, Mike Hammett wrote: > I did an SNMPWalk of two of my Nexus switches looking for what has > the model and serial numbers. I found several, sometimes with > slightly different information. The MIBs on Cisco's site don't go > down this far either. I was wondering if

Re: [c-nsp] Nexus OIDs

2017-02-27 Thread Lee
Mike Hammett > Intelligent Computing Solutions > > Midwest Internet Exchange > > The Brothers WISP > > - Original Message - > > From: "Lee" <ler...@gmail.com> > To: "Mike Hammett" <cisco-...@ics-il.net> > Cc: cisco-nsp@

Re: [c-nsp] Nexus OIDs

2017-02-27 Thread Mike Hammett
nday, February 27, 2017 11:35:59 AM Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Nexus OIDs what does this get you snmpget .1.3.6.1.2.1.1.2.0 $ oid2name .1.3.6.1.2.1.1.2.0 RFC1213-MIB::sysObjectID.0 from the mib: sysObjectID OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX OBJECT IDENTIFIER ACCESS read-only STATUS mandatory DESCRIPT

Re: [c-nsp] Nexus OIDs

2017-02-27 Thread Lee
what does this get you snmpget .1.3.6.1.2.1.1.2.0 $ oid2name .1.3.6.1.2.1.1.2.0 RFC1213-MIB::sysObjectID.0 from the mib: sysObjectID OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX OBJECT IDENTIFIER ACCESS read-only STATUS mandatory DESCRIPTION "The vendor's authoritative identification

[c-nsp] Nexus OIDs

2017-02-27 Thread Mike Hammett
I did an SNMPWalk of two of my Nexus switches looking for what has the model and serial numbers. I found several, sometimes with slightly different information. The MIBs on Cisco's site don't go down this far either. I was wondering if someone could point me as to the differences among them