Since it was developed in 1988, the Simple Network Managment Protocol has become the de facto standard for internetwork managment. Because it is a simple solution, requiring little code to implement, vendors can easily build SNMP agents to their products. Vendors can easily add network managment functions to their existing products. SNMP also separates the managment architecture from the architecture of the hardware devices, which broadens the base of multivendor support.
The SNMP protocol is extensible by design. This is achieved through the notion of a management information base or MIB, which specifies the management data of a specific subsystem of an SNMP-enabled device, using a hierarchical namespace containing object identifiers, so called OID's. The MIB hierarchy can be depicted as a tree with a nameless root, the levels of which are assigned by different organizations.
The free ServersCheck MIB Browser enables you to query any SNMP enabled device by using the SNMPv1, SNMPv2 and even the secure SNMPv3 protocol. As a JAVA based application it can run on any system having the Java Run Time installed. It can perform GET, GETNEXT, WALK and SET SNMP commands.
The ServersCheck MIB Browser directly communicates with the
ServersCheck Monitoring Software. This enables you to browse a MIB from your hardware vendor, test the result returned and if deemed interesting to be monitored then have it added to the Monitoring Softare with a simple click. As a result any numeric OID can be monitored, reported and alerted on (for example when the returned value exceeds a defined alarm level).
This application ships with the standard IANA mibs, the RFC mibs and the mibs from the hardware/server manufacturer MAXDATA.
Additional mibs can be found on various online resources. Click
here for a list of resources.
The Java based the MIB Browser requires the free Java Run Time (JRE) that you can download from following url:
http://java.com/en/download/index.jsp
Download the free ServersCheck MIB Browser:
