I like to equate mibs to oids as DNS to ip addresses. The DNS (in its basic form) is just a way to use a name to represent an IP address. The mib gives a name to represent an oid number. Behind the scenes the end result is the same.
Eric Brander ACS Texas CHIP Account Sr. Communications Engineer - Information Systems Department 512.336.3331 Eric dot Brander at acs-inc dot com -----Original Message----- From: Matt Mozur [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 7:38 AM To: Phil Iovino Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [mrtg] Re: OIDs ok but MIB files? On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Phil Iovino wrote: > > Another dumb question... :) Generally speaking for targets, is there > anything you can do using MIBs that you can't accomplish with OIDs? > Not so dumb... :\) You piqued my curosity & since I am not all that knowledgeable about the inner working of snmp, I grabbed a few snmp packets on my system to look at. Regardless of whether you use symbolic or numeric OIDs in your config, the snmp GET packet that is sent to the agent uses the numeric nomenclature. So, AFAIK, the MIB is only useful to you to provide symbolic naming for OIDs. To be taken with a grain of salt :) mm -- Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/mrtg FAQ http://faq.mrtg.org Homepage http://www.mrtg.org WebAdmin http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/lsg2.cgi -- Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/mrtg FAQ http://faq.mrtg.org Homepage http://www.mrtg.org WebAdmin http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/lsg2.cgi
