The Simple Network Management Protocol
The SNMP management suite consists of an organized structuring of information within each managed device, as well as a protocol to retrieve and set that information. The following section first explains how the information is stored.
Management Information Bases
The Management Information Base (MIB) is a hierarchical arrangement of all information accessible on a device via SNMP. A device may support many MIBs, and each MIB may be standard or proprietary. The Structure of Management Information (SMI) (RFC 1065 relates to SNMPv1, and RFC 1902 to SNMPv2) describes the naming and data types that may exist in a MIB.
A MIB itself is defined using the ISO Abstract Syntax Notation 1 (ASN.1) and extends in a tree ...
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