Lecture 16: Network Management #1

Format Of MIB Entries

By convention, no object in the Internet standard MIB has a sub-identifer of zero. Thus, the first variable in the system group is:

system OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { mib 1 }

which has the name:

{ system 1 }

1.3.6.1.2.1.1.1

A second convention is that symbolic descriptors of objects should be short, mnemonic strings, thus:

sysDescr OBJECT-TYPE
    SYNTAX OCTET STRING
    ACCESS read-only
    STATUS mandatory
        ::= { system 1 }

(NB: The SNMP type sysDescr is a string which gives the manufacturer's type designation of the managed device)

The tutorial for this lecture is Tutorial #16.
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