Concepts / Monitoring

Monitoring

MIB and OID

Also called OID, object identifier, MIB, IF-MIB, ifTable, ifIndex, sysDescr

The tree of numbered names every SNMP value lives at, and the files that put words on the numbers.

.1.3.6.1.2.1.1.5.0 is SNMPv2-MIB::sysName.0: a path through a tree shared by every vendor. MIB files on the station say what each number is called and its type; the agent never sends them. Tables, like IF-MIB's ifTable, add an index to each column's OID: ifDescr.3, ifHCInOctets.3 are both about card 3.

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