Joshua, I found the following white paper from DPS Telecom the most informative in describing the structure of the SNMP OIDs. There is a clear set of examples as to how the complete OID is constructed. It can easily be seen how registered OIDs are formed for specific proprietary companies and products.
http://www.dpstele.com/white-papers/snmp-mib/offer.php?m_row_id=1069673&mail ing_id=265&link=E&uni=3048448be16836b7ec There is no need to create a Management Information Base (MIB) for simple projects as this is usually a separate file supplied with SNMP enabled devices to allow easy integration of the device into an existing major SNMP Management System. I have used an extension of the SNMP demo to allow monitoring of a simple alarm system that I use and it works just fine. There are a number of free small and simple SNMP monitors that let you probe the information from your SNMP server to ensure it is working properly. It gets fairly complicated once you start trying to use full blown Network Management Tools to monitor simple apps as there is too much overhead in the larger systems and I struck problems with the subtle syntax differences between different MIB compilers. If you do not have too many parameters to monitor, do it by hand. I can supply you with some sample code if you wish. Regards, John Hodgson -----Original Message----- From: Joshua Lim [mailto:joshua__...@hotmail.com] Sent: Saturday, 22 May 2010 6:48 PM To: Ararat Synapse Subject: [Synalist] Newbie - How to use snmpserv demo? Hi, I've been asked to build a snmp server on my application so that the IT department can monitor the application, so I checked out snmpserv.exe. I'm able to query the OID .1.3.6.1.2.1.1.1.0 using Snmputilg.exe, part of Windows support tools - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=49ae8576-9bb9-4126- 9761-ba8011fabf38&displaylang=en But now what's next, hope someone can help me with: 1. As I understand, .1.3.6.1.2.1.1.1.0. is just a demo OID, how do I build my own OID? 2. Under procedure TUDPSnmpDaemon.Execute;, there is code that reads MIB, how do I create that? I did Google around on SNMP, but still quite confused as most articles only explain the terminology in a textbook manner and do not deal specifically on creating an SNMP server. Will appreciate any pointers. :) Rgds, Joshua ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- _______________________________________________ synalist-public mailing list synalist-public@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/synalist-public ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ synalist-public mailing list synalist-public@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/synalist-public
