9 May
2007
9 May
'07
9:44 a.m.
On 9-May-2007, at 05:25, <michael.dillon@bt.com> <michael.dillon@bt.com> wrote:
but I'm still unclear on what an MIB actually _is_,
A MIB is the database schema for an object-oriented hierarchical database.
I believe that (some?) purists would assert that there is but one MIB, and that all other MIB-like entities shipped by vendors and others are properly called MIB Extensions. This is pedantry, however. Once upon a time when I was called about to care about this stuff I digested the book "Understanding SNMP MIBs" by David Perkins and Evan McGinnis, Prentice Hall, ISBN 0-13-437708-7. Anybody looking for a dead-tree treatment of SNMP from the design perspective could do a lot worse. Joe