Cabletron Systems EMM-E6 manual A Brief Word About MIB Components and Community Names

EMM-E6 MIB Structure

A Brief Word About MIB Components and Community Names

As mentioned above, the arrangement of the EMM-E6’s MIB into a series of components provides a tremendous amount of flexibility in controlling access to the EMM-E6’s configuration and statistical information, since each MIB component can have its own unique set of community names, and each can be individually enabled and disabled depending on your management needs (see the Community Names chapter in the SPMA Tools Guide for more information).

All of the SPMA applications can handle these differences in community names internally, with no special actions required on the part of the user; just be sure you define your device icon (or, when operating in stand-alone mode, launch each application) with the appropriate community name from the Chassis MGR MIB component, and SPMA can access all of the information it needs.

NOTE

The set of community names you assign via Local Management are those which apply to the Chassis MGR MIB component.

However, some of the tools available through your network management platform may require a community name specific to the component which contains the information you are trying to display and/or change. Be sure to consult your Installing and Using... guide for details; the MIB component descriptions provided above will serve as a roadmap for determining where the information you’re interested in is located.

EMM-E6 MIB Structure A-5