I would really appreciate a working copy of the hiperarc.mib and any other mib that is appropriate to monitoring the TCH, possibly the nmc's mib. I have downloaded the ucd-snmp program and will be installing it today. According to it's file list, most of the basic mib files come with the install, but weren't installed on my computer when I took the Linux easy way. Now I get to do it the hard way, but I will probably have a working system in the end. Typical Linux experience. Mark Thornton San Marcos Internet, Inc. 512-393-5300 ----- Original Message ----- From: Jeff Mcadams <jeffm@iglou.com> To: <usr-tc@lists.xmission.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2000 8:53 PM Subject: Re: (usr-tc) SNMP question
Also sprach Mark Thornton
I got to looking in the hiperarc.mib file and it is importing files that I don't have and don't know where to get.
Keep in mind that MIB != file. For example, the hiperarc.mib file has quite a few mibs contained in it. I know, for example, that there are several mibs in the hiperarc.mib file that import values from other mibs that are contained within the same file. I had to cut-n-paste one of the mibs in that file to another location in the file actually because the ordering was wrong for the imports (one of the DNS related mibs...don't remember for sure which).
These are the mibs that came with all my 3Com install, but I guess that explains it ;) How am I or anyone else supposed to know where to get all the mibs that may be required for a particular client?
I don't recall where I got mine, but let me know what mibs you need and if I have them, I'll gladly send them on. I just don't remember what needs to be added from the base 3Com mib set to make the ucd parser happy.
Isn't this making it awfully hard for something that is name Simple...
Actually, SNMP *is* quite simple. Actually, the protocol is *extremely* simple...one of the reasons that's its not very efficient. It has a grand total of 4 possible operations (well...originally, newer versions of the protocol have more, GET, GETNEXT, SET and TRAP. You don't *have* to have the mib files for SNMP to work either. Indeed, MRTG uses SNMP and doesn't ever touch a mib file, it just uses the numeric OID's (snmp_session.pm doesn't parse mib files at all if I remember correctly). So, the protocol is indeed quite simple, the mibs are there kinda like DNS, in order to convert numbers into something vaguely human readable, but its not a necessary part by any means. :) -- Jeff McAdams Email: jeffm@iglou.com Head Network Administrator Voice: (502) 966-3848 IgLou Internet Services (800) 436-4456
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