Linux Appliance Design

14.5. Creating the LAD-MIB

In this section, we'll create our appliance MIB. Refer to the illustration of the LAD-MIB structure in Figure 14-2 for a better idea of how the MIB components interrelate. It may be helpful to refer to this picture as you follow along with the development of the MIB file.

The LAD-MIB is divided into three main sections:

• ladTraps, containing definitions of traps

• ladTrapInfo, containing definitions of information objects sent in traps

• ladSystem, containing definitions of pollable objects

Let's start the detailed walk-through. Again, we'll be showing one or more lines followed by a discussion of what we've shown.

We'll start with the BEGIN statement and the definition of our MIB name:

LAD-MIB DEFINITIONS ::= BEGIN

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