On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 16:34, Saqib bin Sohail wrote: > First of all I would like to know whats the difference > between a MIB and OID
It's rather difficult to answer that question. "MIB" is one of those nebulous terms, that can mean one of several different (but vaguely related) things. In general "a MIB" tends to refer to group of management objects, all relating to the same general management task. This is more strictly a "MIB module" (or "MIB file"). "The MIB" (of an agent or management tool) is the collection of all MIB modules known to that particular application. "The (global) MIB" is the collection of all possible MIB modules, anywhere in the universe. This last idea is not used very often :-) But note that all of these come down to the idea of "management objects" - a particular bit of management information, such as the name of a computer, or the count of network traffic seen on an interface. An OID is a way of identifying a particular management object, as a sequence of numerical subidentifiers. There's also a distinction between a "management object" (sysName, or ifInOctets) which refers to the abstract idea, and an *instance* of this object (sysName.0, ifInOctets.3) which refers to a particular value for that object. OIDs are used to identify both of these in exactly the same way. See any good SNMP book for more details. Dave ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Oracle Space Sweepstakes Want to be the first software developer in space? Enter now for the Oracle Space Sweepstakes! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7412&alloc_id=16344&op=click _______________________________________________ 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
