SNMP - LTM v9.x MIB Navigation
I had the opportunity to dissect the new LTM SNMP v9 MIB back when 9.0 first rolled. Here's a quick overview of how to navigate in its sometimes murky waters. The LTM v9 MIB is considerably diff...
Published Jun 27, 2007
Version 1.0Deb_Allen_18
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You can translate between different formats of OIDS using the SNMP translate command. Using the net-snmp command set, you should do the following:
At the beginning of your session, you should make the MIB files in /usr/share/snmp/mibs known to the net-snmp commands (if you have a device with its own MIB, then put that file in /usr/share/snmp/mibs)
export MIBS=ALL
Then you may use the OIDs in ASCII to do the same thing.
[root@lovely ~] snmptranslate -On F5-BIGIP-SYSTEM-MIB::sysInterfaceStatPktsIn.\"1.1\"
.1.3.6.1.4.1.3375.2.1.2.4.4.3.1.2.3.49.46.49
[root@lovely mibs] snmptranslate -Oa .1.3.6.1.4.1.3375.2.1.3.1.2
F5-BIGIP-SYSTEM-MIB::sysCpuTable
[silverman@lovely C363773]$ snmptranslate -Of .1.3.6.1.4.1.3375.2.1.3.1.2
.iso.org.dod.internet.private.enterprises.f5.bigipTrafficMgmt.bigipSystem.sysPlatform.sysCpu.sysCpuTable
The S in SNMP stands for Simple, but I don't believe that:
snmpwalk -v2c -On -c public 172.24.74.3 F5-BIGIP-COMMON-MIB::f5 | wc -l
8471
For more information on these options. see
man snmpcmd