2009/3/18 sanjaykumar <[email protected]>:
> What I have understood about "host" module, It required for "HOST" (Any
> Computer connected to network) configuration. Am I right ?

The "host" group implements the HOST-RESOURCES-MIB
(RFC 2790).    This is a standard representation of certain
characteristics common to most "hosts".


> What about the "hardware" ?

The hardware group is somewhat different.
It doesn't actually implement any particular MIB at all.
Instead, it provides a common source of data, that can
be used by other MIB implementations.

The rationale behind this was the recognition that there
is a large amount of overlap between the HOST-RESOURCES-MIB
(the standard representation of host information), and elements
of the UCD-SNMP-MIB  (an early Net-SNMP-specific representation
of similar information).

Initially, we had duplicate code to retrieve this host-related
information from the underlying operating system - possibly in
slightly different ways,  and potentially giving subtly different
results.
   The idea of the "hardware" group is to have a single set of
code for retrieving this information, that can then be used by
both the HOST-RESOURCES-MIB and UCD-SNMP-MIB modules.

So there'll just be one set of code to maintain, and the information
reported will be consistent, regardless of which MIB is used to
make the query.

That's the goal, anyway - we're not there yet.

Dave

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