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Title:DECmcc user notes file. Does not replace IPMT.
Notice:Use IPMT for problems. Newsletter location in note 6187
Moderator:TAEC::BEROUD
Created:Mon Aug 21 1989
Last Modified:Wed Jun 04 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:6497
Total number of notes:27359

1467.0. "SNMP MIB's - ACtions : Read/Modify " by HERON::LATOUCHE (Marc Latouche, Sophia Antipolis) Mon Sep 09 1991 09:28

I have some questions from customers with our support on the various MIBs for
SNMP. I've walked thru the note file, but haven't got the exact answer I need :

With SNMP AM 1.1, we support MIB1, MIB 2 and private extensions.
I've read that MIB test has been performed with Synoptics, Chipcom, Proteon,
 Wellfleet, others ?

I want to be sure I understand the word "test" or the sentence "manage SNMP 
MIBs' correctly.

Does the above means we can READ and MODIFY any attributes
      that are part of MIB I, MIB II, private extensions ?

I'm specifically interested by the CHIPCOM hub management (READ AND MODIFY)

Thanks for any hints (or pointer !)

Marc.
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1467.1To clarify...NSSG::R_SPENCENets don't fail me now...Mon Sep 09 1991 11:3913
    What was "tested" (as I understand it) was the ability to succesfully
    translate the Private MIB Definition and load it into DECmcc.
    
    In ALL cases with DECmcc and SNMP, the ability to READ or Write
    (Modify) any attributes is supported by DECmcc. However, the Vendor's
    implimentation (Welfleet for example) may not permit remote "set"
    directives. I believe that CHIPCOM does permit remote SET but you would
    have to check with CHIPCOM to be sure of exactly which attributes are
    remotely settable.
    
    Does this help?
    
    s/rob
1467.2HERON::LATOUCHEMarc Latouche, Sophia AntipolisMon Sep 09 1991 17:5110
re .1

Thanks, yes it help. 

I'll call a CHIPCOM distributor in Europe and see what they say.

It looks like a problem with a lot of those private MIBS is that they are not
remotly settable ...

Marc.
1467.3You can SET things on the Chipcom Hub.NSSG::R_SPENCENets don't fail me now...Thu Sep 12 1991 14:079
    Yesterday I SET the prompt on a Chipcom Hub using DECmcc so indeed
    Chipcom does permit setting as well as showing.
    
    However, I wasn't able to figure out what to look at in order to make
    sense of any of the tables. Chipcom doesn't seem to mention anything
    in the doc set for the hub about SNMP management other than how to
    enable it.
    
    s/rob
1467.4Look at the MIB...CHRISB::BRIENENDECmcc Bridge|Station|SNMP Management.Thu Sep 12 1991 17:0916
 RE 1467.3
   
>    However, I wasn't able to figure out what to look at in order to make
>    sense of any of the tables. Chipcom doesn't seem to mention anything
>    in the doc set for the hub about SNMP management other than how to
>    enable it.

 Text documenting what the tables mean should be embedded in the 
 CHIPCOM MIB itself, which gets run through the MIB Translator.
 (I haven't looked, but that's typically where the  descriptions
 hang out).

 Sure would be nice if we generated online help directly from the text
 supplied in the MIB. Maybe after V1.2...

						Chris
1467.5HP has it nowENUF::GASSMANMon Sep 16 1991 13:077
    HP has this feature now.  If you need to know what the table values are
    for a set command, you hit the 'describe' button, and the attribute
    highlighted comes up in a window showing it's OID, data type, and all
    the valid values.  A real handy selling feature.
    
    bill