2008/8/19 pregan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

> its hard for me to comment as someone just starting out with zenoss.
>
> but it seems a bit odd that the default modeller finds the OID but cant
> relate that to an already installed MIB.
>
>
>
It's because the modellers have the OID's all hard coded.  It's not possible
to use an arbitrary MIB to model a device as all the MIB gives you are the
OID's, their datatypes and their description.  How would zenoss map that
info to data items it requires such as OS Name.  There are some standard
MIBS defined which do cover the basics and all SNMP devices generally
support those, and zenoss uses those for modelling, but for device specific
features you would need to write a custom map to define how the OID's relate
to fields in the zenoss db.

ZenPacks are one solution to defining the mapping where they introduce new
modelling maps and performance templates.

-- 
Regards,

Graham Bloice
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