SNMP MIB Information

Using SNMP

 

 

 

 

Industry Standard MIBs

The following table lists industry standard MIBs supported by the OmniSwitch 6600 Family.

MIB Name

Description

Dependencies

 

 

 

BRIDGE-MIB,

The Bridge MIB for managing MAC bridges based on

SNMPv2-SMI,

RFC 1493

the IEEE 802.1D standard between Local Area Net-

RFC1215-MIB

 

work (LAN) segments.

 

 

 

 

EE8023-LAG-MIB,

Link Aggregation module for managing IEEE

SNMPv2-SMI,

IEEE 802.3ad

Standard 802.3ad.

SNMPv2-TC,

 

 

SNMPv2-CONF,

 

 

IF-MIB,

 

 

Q-BRIDGE-MIB

 

 

 

ENTITY-MIB, RFC 2737

Entity MIB (Version 2). Standardized set of managed

SNMPv2-SMI,

 

objects representing logical and physical entities and

SNMPv2-TC,

 

relationships between them.

SNMPv2-CONF,

 

 

SNMP-

 

 

FRAMEWORK-

 

 

MIB

 

 

 

EtherLike-MIB,

Definitions of Managed Objects for the Ethernet-like

SNMPv2-SMI,

RFC 2665

Interface Types.

SNMPv2-CONF,

 

 

IF-MIB

 

 

 

HCNUM-TC, RFC 2856:

A MIB module containing textual conventions for high

SNMPv2-SMI,

 

capacity data types. This module addresses an

SNMPv2-TC

 

immediate need for data types not directly supported in

 

 

the SMIv2. This short-term solution is meant to be

 

 

deprecated as a long-term solution is deployed.

 

 

 

 

IANAifType-MIB

This MIB module defines the IANAifType Textual

SNMPv2-SMI,

 

Convention, and thus the enumerated values of the

SNMPv2-TC

 

ifType object defined in the MIB-II Table.

 

 

 

 

IANA-RTPROTO-MIB

This MIB module defines the IANAipRouteProtocol

SNMPv2-SMI,

 

and IANAipMRouteProtocol textual conventions for

SNMPv2-TC

 

use in MIBs which need to identify unicast or multi-

 

 

cast routing mechanisms.

 

 

 

 

IEEE8021-PAE-MIB

This MIB modules defines 802.1X ports used for port-

SNMPv2-SMI,

 

based access control.

SNMPv2-TC,

 

 

SNMPv2-CONF,

 

 

SNMP-

 

 

FRAMEWORK-

 

 

MIB

 

 

IF-MIB

 

 

 

IF-MIB, RFC 2863

The Interfaces Group MIB. Contains generic

SNMPv2-SMI,

 

information about the physical interfaces of the entity.

SNMPv2-TC,

 

 

SNMPv2-CONF,

 

 

SNMPv2-MIB,

 

 

IANAifType-MIB

 

 

 

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