Brocade Unified IP MIB Reference (Supporting FastIron Release 07.5.00) - Manual (Page 29)

Unified IP MIB Reference 1
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Chapter
1
Overview of the Unified IP MIB
In this chapter
• Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
• Obtaining and installing the Unified IP MIBs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
• Standard objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
• Proprietary objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
• SNMP support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Introduction
The Management Information Base (MIB) is a database of objects that can be used by a Network
Management System (NMS) to manage and monitor devices on the network. The MIB can be
retrieved by a network management system that uses Simple Network Management Protocol
(SNMP). The MIB structure determines the scope of management access allowed by a device. By
using SNMP, a manager application can issue read or write operations within the scope of the MIB.
The Unified IP MIB consolidates proprietary MIBs used by all Brocade IP devices into one
proprietary MIB file. With this consolidation, all MIBs from IP devices are fully synchronized from
one device to another. It also ensures that each MIB object across various IP products have
consistent definition. The SNMP Manager can compile MIBs safely from various platforms and not
expect to get warnings due to conflicting OIDs, data types, or enumeration. The supported standard
MIBs are not affected.
The Unified IP MIB is not backward-compatible; for this reason, if you have Brocade devices that do
not support the Unified IP MIB, you may need to rewrite your SNMP scripts if the scripts contain
objects that were changed in the Unified IP MIB.
Obtaining and installing the Unified IP MIBs
You can obtain the Unified IP MIBs by downloading the file from the Brocade Technical Support
website.
After obtaining the MIB, follow the instructions for your network management system (NMS) to be
able to use the MIB with your system.
Downloading the MIB from the Technical Support website
To download the MIB from the Brocade Technical Support website, you must have a user name and
password to access the Brocade support site and perform the following steps.