Management Information Base
<networking> (MIB) A
database of managed objects acessed by
network management protocols.
An
SNMP MIB is a set of parameters which an
SNMP management station can query or set in the
SNMP agent of a network device (e.g.
router).
SNMP has two
standard MIBs.
The first, MIB I, was established in
RFC 1156, was defined to manage
TCP/IP-based internets.
MIB II, defined in
RFC 1213, is an update.
Standard minimal MIBs have been defined, and many hardware (and certain software, e.g.
DBMS) providers have developed private MIBs in
ASN.1 format allowing them to be compiled for use in a Network Management System.
In theory, any SNMP manager can talk to any
SNMP agent with a properly defined MIB.
See also
client-server model.
