STRUCTURE OF MANAGEMENT INFORMATION
Entities that can be managed using SNMP are called objects. The Structure of Management Information (SMI) provides a framework to manage these objects. Each object has properties, including the following:
Name
Syntax
Encoding
The object name is defined in a special way using object identifiers (OIDs). These are discussed later in the chapter. The syntax refers to the data type used to store the value of that object. If you find the following in the definition of a MIB, for instance, it means the object name is sysServices and it is of the data type integer. Its value can change from 0 to 127, as noted here:
sysServices OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX INTEGER (0..127) ACCESS read-only STATUS mandatory DESCRIPTION
The
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