Thank u very much Joao and Dave. I will try out these... On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 09:17:56 +0100, Joao Miguel Ferreira wrote > On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 23:33 +0630, Treesa Fairy Joseph wrote: > > I guess my MIB will become one > > enterprise specific MIB. > > This is about private MIB registration, taken from a book: > > ------------------------------------------------ > > The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) currently manages all > the private enterprise number assignments for individuals, > institutions, organizations, companies, etc.[10] A list of all the > current private enterprise numbers can be obtained > fromftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/enterprise-numbers. > As an example, Cisco Systems's private enterprise number is 9, so > the base OID for its private object space is defined as > iso.org.dod.internet.private.enterprises.cisco, or 1.3.6.1.4.1.9. Cisco > is free to do as it wishes with this private branch. It's typical for > companies such as Cisco that manufacture networking equipment to define > their own private enterprise objects. This allows for a richer set of > management information than can be gathered from the standard set of > managed objects defined under the mgmt branch. > > [10]The term "private enterprise" will be used throughout > this book to refer to the enterprises branch. > > Companies aren't the only ones who can register their own private > enterprise numbers. Anyone can do so, and it's free. The web-based form > for registering private enterprise numbers can be found at > http://www.isi.edu/cgi-bin/iana/enterprise.pl. After you fill in the > form, which asks for information such as your organization's name and > contact information, your request should be approved in about a week. > Why would you want to register your own number? When you become more > conversant in SNMP, you'll find things you want to monitor that > aren't covered by any MIB, public or private. With your own > enterprise number, you can create your own private MIB that allows > you to monitor exactly what you want. You'll need to be somewhat > clever in extending your agents so that they can look up the > information you want, but it's very doable.-------------------------- > ---------------------- > > Cheers > jmf > > > > > Thanks in advance, > > Treesa > > -- > > Open WebMail Project (http://openwebmail.org) > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash > > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > > _______________________________________________ > > Net-snmp-users mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Please see the following page to unsubscribe or change other options: > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/net-snmp-users > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean.
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