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Group name Description of objects within the group RFC defining<br />

the group’s<br />

MIB<br />

SNMP Information <strong>and</strong> statistics related to the SNMP<br />

environment.<br />

Note that these constitute only the minimum implementation. An implementation<br />

can also create it’s own groups <strong>and</strong> objects which are application or<br />

platform-specific. In such cases, the MIB must be built into the SNMP agent<br />

itself, or be made available to the agent using the distributed programming<br />

interface (DPI, see 11.2.3, “The SNMP distributed programming interface (SNMP<br />

DPI)” on page 419). Additionally, each managed node supports only those<br />

groups that are appropriate. For example, if there is no gateway, the EGP<br />

group need not be supported. If a group is appropriate, all objects in that<br />

group must be supported.<br />

Objects within a MIB are defined using the Structure of Management Information<br />

Version 2 (SMIv2), defined in RFC 2578.<br />

Structure of Management Information Version 2 (SMIv2)<br />

SMIv2 defines the rules for how managed objects are described <strong>and</strong> how<br />

management protocols can access these objects. The description of managed<br />

objects is made using a subset of the Abstract Syntax Notation One (ASN.1, ISO<br />

st<strong>and</strong>ard 8824), a data description language. The object type definition uses the<br />

following syntax:<br />

objectName OBJECT-TYPE<br />

SYNTAX syntax<br />

UNITS “units”<br />

MAX-ACCESS access<br />

STATUS status<br />

DESCR<strong>IP</strong>TION “descriptiveText”<br />

REFERENCE “referenceText”<br />

INDEX {indexTypes}<br />

DEFVAL {defaultValue}<br />

::= { group # }<br />

626 <strong>TCP</strong>/<strong>IP</strong> <strong>Tutorial</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Technical</strong> <strong>Overview</strong><br />

RFC 3411<br />

RFC 3412<br />

RFC 3413<br />

RFC 3414<br />

RFC 3415<br />

RFC 3418

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