Chapter 11
SNMP
Figure 11-5 Viewing trap destinations
11.4 SNMP Management Information Bases
A management information base (MIB) is a hierarchically-organized collection of information.
Network-management protocols, such as SNMP, gain access to MIBs. MIBs consist of managed objects
and are identified by object identifiers.
The ONS 15454 SNMP agent communicates with an SNMP management application using SNMP
messages.
Table 11-1 SNMP Message Types
Operation
get-request
get-next-request Retrieves the value following the named variable; this operation is often
get-response
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Table 11-1
describes these messages.
Description
Retrieves a value from a specific variable
used to retrieve variables from within a table. With this operation, an SNMP
manager does not need to know the exact variable name. The SNMP
manager searches sequentially to find the needed variable from within the
MIB.
The reply to a get-request, get-next-request, get-bulk-request, or set-request
sent by an NMS
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