Tell me more ×  I can't seem to get my head wrapped around the
purpose of a MIB. I have a collection of ~20 MIB files that were
supplied to me by the vendor, but what do I do with them?  I
also have a few OID's that were supplied by the vendor that
don't seem to be valid. When I issue an "snmpget -v1 -c public
." (assume that's a valid OID), I get an error indicating the
variable is unknown. Does this sound like a hardware
configuration problem? Do I need to "load" (for lack of better
words) the MIB into the device?  Unfortunately, the vendor has
been completely unresponsive with returning emails to my
questions, so any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Massimo Jan 3 '11 at 16:28 add comment  3 Answers  up vote 9
down vote accepted  MIB files are needed to tell you (or your
monitoring system, or your SNMP query tool...) what OIDs
actually mean; otherwise, all you get is a bunch of numbers. But
this is only a client issue, the device you query alre