Re: [cacti-announce] Cacti 0.8.6j Released (fwd)

[Joe Abley <jabley () ca afilias info>]

On 9-May-2007, at 05:25, <michael.dillon () bt com>  
<michael.dillon () bt com> wrote:

> > but I'm still unclear on
> > what an MIB actually _is_,
>
> A MIB is the database schema for an object-oriented hierarchical
> database.

I believe that (some?) purists would assert that there is but one  
MIB, and that all other MIB-like entities shipped by vendors and  
others are properly called MIB Extensions. This is pedantry, however.

Once upon a time when I was called about to care about this stuff I  
digested the book "Understanding SNMP MIBs" by David Perkins and Evan  
McGinnis, Prentice Hall, ISBN 0-13-437708-7. Anybody looking for a  
dead-tree treatment of SNMP from the design perspective could do a  
lot worse.


Joe