If you are only using netview to accept traps then no mib loading is
necessary.
The agent will send the trap, and you will then need to read through the
vendor's documentation, or the trap mib itself to determine the trap
contents.
Mib loading is necessary if you wish to use the mib browser that is built in
to netview, or to create custom polling applications either though netview
or custom scripting.
Any time you add new mibs, you should zip or tar your mib directory, and
after every few succesful loads re-acrchive it. As you may find that not all
mibs load nicely, and order of operation may matter.
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nv-l@lists.us.ibm.com [mailto:owner-nv-l@lists.us.ibm.com]On
Behalf Of Mildeberger, Thorsten
Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 7:54 AM
To: nv-l@lists.us.ibm.com
Subject: [nv-l] update process for MIB´s
Hi all,
we are using several of our Netview servers (version 7.1.3, fixpack 3) as a
trap receiver and therefore have to deal with updating the trap definitions.
I would like to know as a kind of best practices how you manage to keep
track on this?
a)
are we right in thinking that new versions of MIB files (regardless of the
vendor who is providing those MIB files) do always cover the previous
version (same content), i.e. they are compatible to each other? Or could it
be in some cases that definitions are going to be removed in new versions of
MIB files?
b)
what is the best practice to get always informed about the most current
version of a MIB file / updates / changes?
1) to check the webpages of the vendors for new versions, filesize of the
MIB files etc.
2) to receive a vendor´s newsletter, which covers such nice information
about updates of specific MIB files?
3) check the trapd.log file for "unknown traps" to search for them in the
internet
Thank you - it is greatly appreciated.
best regards,
> Thorsten Mildeberger
>
> EMS Solutions - SMC Tools & Automation
> ITO - Central Region
> EDS Deutschland GmbH
> Eisenstr. 43
> 65428 Rüsselsheim
> Tel.: +49 (0) 6142 80-3706
> Fax.: +49 (0) 6142 80-3030
> mailto:thorsten.mildeberger@eds.com
>
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