Re: Whatsup and SNMP

Dale E. Reed Jr. ( (no email) )
Mon, 13 Apr 1998 14:00:39 -0700

jcontre@iamnet.com wrote:
>
> Hello List
>
> I am trying to configure SNMP monitoring with
> whatusup gold, but it seems that it only accepts
> SNMP values, instead of mib files.
> Do you have the SNMP values for Cisco and Ascend
> routers? (not the mib files, I donwloaded those)
> Or do you have a translator/interpreter for mib?

You are looking for an OID. A MIB is used to determine the
type and description information of the OID. A common one would
be:

system.sysUpTime.0 = Timeticks: (103476680) 11 days, 23:26:06

Now, if you look at a typical SNMP definition, you'll see:

internet OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { iso org(3) dod(6) 1 }
directory OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { internet 1 }
mgmt OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { internet 2 }

mib-2 OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { mgmt 1 }
system OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { mib-2 1 }

sysUpTime OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX TimeTicks
ACCESS read-only
STATUS mandatory
DESCRIPTION
"The time (in hundredths of a second) since the
network management portion of the system was last
re-initialized."
::= { system 3 }

So if you follow the numbers, you get:

sysUpTime = .1.3.6.1.2.1.1.3.0

or

sysUpTime = iso.org.dod.internet.mgmt.mib-2.system.sysUpTime

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