MIB Browser

This document is divided into the following sections;

1. Overview

2. Features

3. MIB Upload Procedure

4. Getting OID

5. Getting Value for OID

The detailed explanation of each of the above topic is as follows;

Overview:

This section is applicable to Professional Edition, Enterprise Edition [Probes only] and MSP Edition [Probes only]. This section is not relevant / not applicable to Enterprise Edition [Central Server] and MSP Edition [Central Server].

The MIB Browser tool is a complete 'SNMP MIB Browser' that enables loading and browsing of MIBs, and performing all SNMP-related operations. You can also view and operate on the data available, through the SNMP agent, running on a managed device.

Features:

The features of MIB Browser are as follows:

• Saving the MIB Browser settings.

• Loading and viewing MIB modules in a MIB tree.

• Traversing the MIB tree, to view the definitions of each node for a particular object, defined in the MIB.

• Performing basic SNMP operations, such as GET, GETNEXT, GETBULK, and SET.

• Support for multi-varbind requests. This feature is available only in the Java client.

• Real-time plotting of SNMP data in a graph. Line graph and Bar graph are the two types of graphs that are currently supported. This feature is available only in the Java client.

• Table-view of SNMP data. This feature is available only in the Java client.

• Enables loading of MIBs at startup. This feature is available only in the Java client.

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MIB Browser Interface

• Menu bar: Contains menus with related commands to perform all administrative operations.
  
  
• Toolbar: Contains frequently used administrative commands for easy access.
  
  
• MIB Tree: Shows all the loaded MIBs. You can traverse the tree and view the definition of each node in the tree.
  
  
• SNMP Settings: Displays the SNMP settings of the selected node.
  
  
• Result Display Area: Displays the result of the SNMP operations.
  
  
• Object Attributes: Shows the attributes of the selected node

Follow the below steps in order to upload the MIB:

1. Navigate to 'Admin -> Networks -> Mib Browser'. Click the button.

2. Click the 'Browse' button in the window that pops up, and fetch MIB file under '<It360 home installation directory>\ManageEngine\IT360\networks\mibs'. Again, click 'Upload MIB'. Now, the selected MIB is added to the 'Select MIB' Filter list.

Note: Please ensure that the MIBs corresponding to the new device are always present under '<It360 home installation directory>\ManageEngine\IT360\networks\mibs'.

3. Select the uploaded MIB from the 'Select MIB' filter.

4. Now, the selected MIB and the related attributes (MIB Nodes) are displayed in the MIB Tree, as shown below:

Note:

1. The MIB Tree shows all the loaded MIBs. You can traverse the tree and view the definition of each node in the tree, in the corresponding fields, such as 'Object ID', 'Syntax', 'MIB Node Description', etc.

2. Click 'Expand All' or 'Collapse All', to respectively view or minimize all the attributes/nodes under the selected MIB.

Getting Object ID (OID):

If you want to retrieve the OID of a particular attribute, just click on the attribute. The OID corresponding to that attribute is displayed in the 'Object ID' field.

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Getting Value for Object ID (OID):

The below steps help you in getting value for a particular OID. For example, let us consider the sysObjectID:

1. Navigate to 'Admin -> Networks -> Mib Browser'.

2. Select the MIB, shown in below image, from the 'Select MIB' filter.

3. Select the attribute, shown in below image, from the MIB Tree.

4. Click the 'Select a device link. A window pops up with a list of SNMP devices. Select a device and click 'OK'.

5. Enter the appropriate value in the 'Community' field.

6. Hit the button. The sysObjectID value is generated as shown below:

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