Management Information Base - F-SECURE POLICY MANAGER 8.0 Administrator's Manual

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Management Information Base

The Management Information Base (MIB) is a hierarchical management
data structure used in the Simple Network Management Protocol
(SNMP). In F-Secure Policy Manager, the MIB structure is used for
defining the contents of the policy files. Each variable has an Object
Identifier (OID) and a value that can be accessed using the Policy API. In
addition to basic SNMP MIB definitions, the F-Secure MIB concept
includes many extensions that are needed for complete policy-based
management.
The following categories are defined in a product's MIB:
Settings
Statistics
Operations
Private
Used to manage the workstation in the manner
of an SNMP. The managed products must
operate within the limits specified here.
Delivers product statistics to F-Secure Policy
Manager Console.
Operations are handled with two policy
variables: (1) a variable for transferring the
operation identifier to the host, and (2) a variable
for informing F-Secure Policy Manager Console
about the operations that were performed. The
second variable is transferred using normal
statistics; it acknowledges all previous
operations at one time. A custom editor for
editing operations is associated with the
subtree; the editor hides the two variables.
The management concept MIBs may also
contain variables which the product stores for its
internal use between sessions. This way, the
product does not need to rely on external
services such as Windows registry files.
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