On 9-May-2007, at 05:25, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
but I'm still unclear on
what an MIB actually _is_,
A MIB is the database schema for an object-oriented hierarchical
database.
I believe that (some?) purists would assert that there is but one
MIB, and that all other MIB-like entities shipped by vendors and
others are properly called MIB Extensions. This is pedantry, however.
Once upon a time when I was called about to care about this stuff I
digested the book "Understanding SNMP MIBs" by David Perkins and Evan
McGinnis, Prentice Hall, ISBN 0-13-437708-7. Anybody looking for a
dead-tree treatment of SNMP from the design perspective could do a
lot worse.
Joe
