(MIB) A database of managed objects acessed by network management protocol s. 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 internet s. MIB II, defined in RFC 1213 , is basically an update to MIB I.
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 Nework Management System . In theory, any SNMP manager can talk to any SNMP agent with a properly defined MIB.
See also client-server model .
(1994-11-14)