Performance and Fault Management

Cisco MIB Structure

Previous to IOS 10.2 the base structure of the Cisco MIB branch is shown in Figure A-1.

Figure A-1. Cisco MIB Branch, Pre-IOS 10.2

The following list describes the various component branches of the Cisco MIB branch:

• Product branch— The product branch holds the sysObjectIDs for most Cisco products. This object identifies the type of productsuch as a 4700 or a 7507 router. Most NMS applications use the sysObjectID to identify the network devices in their database and on the topology map.

• Local branch— The local branch originally was the branch where most management objects were located. However, much of the local branch is defined ...