MIB Files Directory
SNMP agents do not provide full meta information about their properties (SNMP object identifiers). Most data necessary to present settings of SNMP devices is extracted from Management Information Base (MIB) files.
 | MIB (Management Information Base) files contain detailed information about objects provided by SNMP devices. |
SNMP Device driver has a built-in repository of MIB files. MIB Files Directory table allows to manage this repository. This table has the following fields:
Field | Description | |
SNMP Variable Name | Description of a MIB file. | |
MIB File | MIB file data. | |
Variable Descriptions | Defines how descriptions of device setting variables are formed. There are three choices:
Correct value of this setting depends on the structure of MIB file and may be different for MIB files of different hardware manufacturers. The default value of this setting shows names of MIB symbols in variable descriptions, but it's always possible to see the full symbol descriptions by checking variable help (detailed description). This help is usually shown in tooltips in Iotellect Server User Interfaces. | |
Enabled | If this option is off, MIB file is not loaded on server startup and not used to obtain information about device settings. | |
 | If other MIB files depend to the disabled MIB file, their loading may fail. | |
Default | If this option is on, MIB is denoted as default. It will be enabled automatically in assets list. | |
Loaded | Read-only flag indicating whether the MIB was loaded successfully and is being used by the driver. | |
Load Errors | This field contains MIB loading and compilation errors, if any. | |
The MIB files that are denoted as loaded in this table are actually used by SNMP driver to get information about SNMP device settings and traps.
Built-in MIB Files
There are more than two hundred of MIB files that are essential for SNMP monitoring and therefore are bundled with Iotellect Server distribution. They contain information about MIB objects of frequently monitored SNMP devices, such as routers, servers, network printers etc.
MIB Files Auto Loading
SNMP Device driver may automatically load one or more MIB files from the disk drive and add them to the MIB Database during Iotellect Server startup. To activate this function, put your MIB files into the /mib subdirectory of Iotellect Server installation and start/restart the server. MIB files will be added to the MIB database and used by the driver.
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