[mrtg] Re: OIDs ok but MIB files?

Phil Iovino phil at nxtek.net
Fri Mar 7 14:10:35 MET 2003


Another dumb question... :) Generally speaking for targets, is there
anything you can do using MIBs that you can't  accomplish with OIDs?

> > If you use numeric OIDs then you don't need to load the MIBs.
> >  But, if you would like to specify the OID symbolically, you 
> > need the MIB.  For example, if you want to find the amount of 
> > DRAM in your system you can specify the OID: 
> > .1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.6.101. Doing it this way, there is not 
> > need to load the HOST_RESOURCES-MIB.
> > 
> > If you load the MIB, you could specify the variable symbolically:
> >   hrStorageUsed.101.

--
Unsubscribe mailto:mrtg-request at list.ee.ethz.ch?subject=unsubscribe
Archive     http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/mrtg
FAQ         http://faq.mrtg.org    Homepage     http://www.mrtg.org
WebAdmin    http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/lsg2.cgi



More information about the mrtg mailing list