Hi everybody,

I have debian Lenny as an server I would like for monitoring of some network components ( switches, printers, routers ... ) and at
/usr/share/snmp/mibs I have

/usr/share/snmp/mibs# ls -l
total 1844
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17455 2008-12-16 18:22 AGENTX-MIB.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 36576 2008-12-16 18:23 BGP4-MIB.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 36959 2008-12-16 18:23 BRIDGE-MIB.txt
....
....
ls -l | wc -l shows 66, what means 66 differen mibs.
snmp related packages I have installed are as :
dpkg -l | grep ii | grep snmp
ii libgsnmp0 0.2.0-2.1 an SNMP library implementation based on glib and gnet
ii libsnmp-base 5.4.1~dfsg-12 SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) MIBs and documentati
ii libsnmp-perl 5.4.1~dfsg-12 SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) Perl5 support
ii libsnmp15 5.4.1~dfsg-12 SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) library
ii snmp 5.4.1~dfsg-12 SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) applications
ii snmpd 5.4.1~dfsg-12 SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) agents


My question is, how I can install additional mibs ( for Cisco, Procurve, etc ) for other hw I could have ? What is procedure. I browsed debian package base and I could not find some more packages related to snmp that could supply more mibs.

Comments are more than welcome and thank you in advance,

Kind regards,

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MIBs for additional hardware are usually supplied by your hardware vendor, not by the distro.

You can place them in /usr/share/snmp/mibs/ and then snmp will find them. In addition you can write into /etc/snmp/snmp.conf additional directories which should be searched for MIB files or you can explicitely add MIBs to be loaded whenever snmp is called like in the example below.
Note however that you can always traverse down the SNMP tree by using snmpwalk, and a MIB is nothing else but a translation from numeric codes to text. You can even write your own MIB or not use one at all.

jlinkels

Thank you for reply. That is exaclty how I understand it, I know that MIBs are provided by vendor and that is clear. I am only struggling once download MIB in .mib format how to push my debian machine to read and use it.
All MIBs I have found in internet are in .mib format, the ones delivered by debian are in .txt format...

Best regards,

How does .mib look like? Human readable?

Debian should really read all those files in the mibs directory, but you can also explicitely specify as a parameter of your snmp command.

Test with snmptranslate.

There is also a debug option with snmp commands, with if set high enough, it will output all directories and mib files have been read. Forgot the exact parameter for debugging, but man snmpcmd (snmpcommand?) or man snmpget should tell you that.

jlinkels