[SNMP4J] SNMP and MIB

[Frank Fock]

Hi Nedo,

Understanding the MIB specification is essential to
write a SNMP application for a device implementing
it. I do not think, that we can help here.

Best regards,
Frank

Nedzad Junuzovic schrieb:
> Dear Frank,
> there is a mini DSLAM produced by "Keymile" and there are ADSL cards 
> into the chasy. Like network administrator for this platform 
> (flexibile multiplexers) I used to use proprietary OSS, but this new 
> ADSL cards offers SNMP support also. So, I have been thinking :), it 
> would be great if I could catch SNMP traps from these new cards 
> (propritary alarm sistem is very bad, by the way, there is no real 
> time monitoring) by SNMP manager made by myself which would have a 
> customer database included also. The problem is that I can't do the 
> OID-Alarms mapping because I dont know how to read proprietary 
> MIB...Can you help me how to do it ? I, at least, have to be able to 
> recognize alarm when ADSL line (on specific port and specfic card 
> distinguished by its IP adress) goes down. There are SNMP messages 
> caught by SNMP4J example manager and ordinary Hyper Terminal when I 
> just unpluged ADSL modem (than switched it back again) from DSL-1 port 
> in attachment. How Hyper Terminal application does it ?
>
> Thank you all,
>
> Nedo.
>
> On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Frank Fock <fock at agentpp.com 
> <mailto:fock at agentpp.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Nedo,
>
>     On the wire (between agent and manager) only OIDs and
>     values are transmitted by SNMP. On the manager side,
>     you will have to "know" which OID belongs to what
>     "information". Loading a MIB at runtime is not necessary
>     for that. You can also use that information at compile time
>     only (i.e. using AgenPro).
>
>     You can, of course, use your own mapping between OID
>     and information (in the context of your program) and
>     create it manually during programming your manager
>     application.
>
>     Best regards,
>     Frank
>
>     Nedzad Junuzovic schrieb:
>
>         Hi all,
>
>         please could someone tell me how to decode SNMP message
>         received by managed
>         device, so instead of OID and (for me) meaningless string of
>         numbers I
>         suppose to get information that DSL-1 interface of card in
>         slot 13 is down ?
>         Does it mean that SNMP manager has to have a copy of MIB to
>         decode received
>         SNMP message ? Please help, I lost all day long reading and
>         surfing but
>         without concrete info what do I need to do ...
>
>         Regards
>
>         Nedo.
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