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Are there any sane solutions for managing lots of MIBs? In my experience the largest pain with SNMP comes from the fact that vendors usually provide their MIBs
by chousuke 5y ago
Are there any sane solutions for managing lots of MIBs? In my experience the largest pain with SNMP comes from the fact that vendors usually provide their MIBs as a single huge pile of junk containing some random version of all the dependencies as well, with completely random file naming conventions.
This means that trying to use two vendors' MIBs together with eg. snmptrapd basically leads to undefined behaviour when translating traps. I don't know if there any way to actually tell which definitions will take precedence or whether the definition is correct.
It also doesn't help that often the trap's translation is just as cryptic as the bare OID.
- jcrawfordor 5y agoThe state of Cisco's MIB downloads kind of shows the state of things, it's just a very dusty, forgotten corner of their website that links directly to FTP. Part of me doesn't want to complain but browsers don't tend to have native FTP anymore so this becomes a minor pain, and certainly tells you that Cisco has just about forgotten about this. In general no vendors seem to put much effort into their MIBs and that produces a lot of the frustration around these.