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Management Information Base, used in SNMP.

A repository for information used mostly for the SNMP protocol. Information can be found here.

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SNMP - What are .mib files used for, and why are there many of them for a single printer?

I am investigating methods of monitoring particular stats with printers. I am not very knowledgeable yet, and was just curious what .mib files are used for and why there are many of them for a printer? Example:…
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how to get interface traffic snmp information for routers ( cisco, zte, huawei ...)?

I have cisco, zte, huawei routers..How can i get the traffic information of every interfaces of these routers. I donot have mib file of zte and huawei. So, i want a generic mib file which can monitor every interfaces of these routers
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Which SNMP variables to diagnose/characterise wifi congestion?

I'm preparing for a load test of a classroom wifi system. The pupils all turn on their laptops at the start of the lesson, which launches the web browser and then they start the lesson - which involves downloading a flash based lesson (from a server…
Hamish Downer
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SNMP MIB file resource

My company(ISP) has 50+ switch models in our network, we manage them via SNMP from our web based intranet, for some Huawei switches we can't figure out the OID's we need (we usualy figure the OID we need our self, beacause we usualy don't receive…
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How to Determine the Correct OID to Use for Monitoring

Is there a correct/better way of determining the correct OID to use for SNMP monitoring? I was able to download the MIB directly from the device, but I am lost on finding the correct OID from the list of hundreds of OIDs. All forums that I've come…
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How do I select an OID for my MIB

I've been trying to attach an OID to run a specific script for sometime and at this point I think the culprit is my bad MIB. I've corrected my MIB but I'm curious about the OID i'm trying to use. Currently I am trying to use the .1.3.6.1.4.1.214…
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Did not find 'zeroDotZero' in module SNMPv2-SMI

I have a perl script that searches through our switches to find which one hosts a given IP address; this script uses net-snmp libraries to poll through a daisy-chain of ethernet switches (think core / distribution / access) until it finds the…
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Looking for toner level OID for nagios snmp for Brother 9460

I'm setting up an Opsview (nagios) server for monitoring. It's all going fairly swimmingly so far. The most immediate use for the system will be monitoring (or more to the point, alerting me about) printer toner levels. At the moment, the "alert"…
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Tools to generate a Cacti template from a MIB?

We use Cacti to monitor trends on our servers. Sometimes I get a new appliance or a server, and that appliance comes with a MIB which can be used to monitor the appliance via SNMP. For this example, I have Google Mini Search Appliance, and Google…
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snmpget error: “No Such Object available on this agent at this OID”

I want to create my own MIB. I'm struggling on this from couple of weeks. I followed this tutorial and using net-snmp 5.7.3. What I'm doing is: My setup: I have two VM's, both Ubuntu 16, one is snmp-server with IP:192.168.5.20 and the other…
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Why is the wrong MIB being used during snmpwalk?

Running snmp walk for the following OID 1.3.6.1.2.1.43.11.1.1.9, which belongs to PRINTER-MIB under prtMarkerSuppliesLevel, is returning SNMPv2-SMI values. I imagine they are correct, but why is the SNMPv2-SMI MIB being referenced here? I'm running…
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Customize OID of snmp in linux

Iwant to add an custom OID to MIB tree structure. I add the line as below to file /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf extend test1 /bin/echo Hello, world! but I don't know how to specifiy the exact OID number. Is there any way to do that?
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SNMP commands for IBM server

I’m trying to get some data from an IBM server, for example the temperature using the OID .1.3.6.1.4.1.2.3.51.3.1.1.2.1.1 If I run the command: snmpget -O n -v 2c -c public IP .1.3.6.1.4.1.2.3.51.3.1.1.2.1.1 I get the answer: no such object…
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Why would you add MIBs to a device/agent?

I'm currently learning all the SNMP protocols and attempting to put together a script for querying device information, purely all GET queries. I've seen a lot of example questions/scripts where people have or can create their own MIBs in a…
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snmpget "No such object available on this agent at this OID"

I have been working on trying to get a value with a custom MIB through SNMP This is my custom MIB: MY-MIB DEFINITIONS ::= BEGIN IMPORTS MODULE-IDENTITY, OBJECT-TYPE, Integer32, enterprises FROM SNMPv2-SMI ; psutest MODULE-IDENTITY …
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