This page is the starting point for viewing MIBs of a particular host and community. These items can be changed on the MIB Master Home Page using its form fields.
MIBs may be viewed in three ways:
The standard RFC1213 MIB II variables may be viewed using the hot links presented. The eight sub-sections may be accessed directly from this page. Each has details and help on the variables contained therein.
The HTML templates for the standard MIB II variables are contained in the mibs/mib2 subdirectory. These files can be used as examples of how to make your own customised MIB view files.
A list of all HTML files in the mibs directory will also be listed. These would be the start pages for viewing any enterprise specific MIBs. Files here can also be used for customised views of the standard MIB variables. See the main Help Page for more details on how to make template files.
Note that if there are no HTML files in the mibs directory then no custom MIB hot links will be presented.
MIBs can also be displayed using an arbitrary object identifier (OID) as a starting point. The Discover enterprise-specific MIB hot link is equivalent to discovering MIB's using the OID 1.3.6.1.4 as a starting point.
Selecting discover will display a new page consisting of all MIB variables starting at the specified OID, their type and value in a possibly very large table. The user can view or modify any variable on this table. Attempting to modify a Read Only variable, however, will fail when the attempt is made. A customised MIB file viewing the same data may have more control over formatting or disallowing modification to read only variables.
Note that this table is completely generated on the fly. No human readable names or help is provided and the OIDs are displayed by their ASN only. It is up to the user or enterprise to provide HTML files to access custom MIBs in a user friendly manner.
When an objects value is itself another object identifier (OID), then it is represented by a hot link to a special page that displays the nested OIDs value. This could in turn be another OID which presents another page, and so on.
This page displays the host and community name and a simple table with the OID, type and value. This table is completely generated on the fly. No human readable names or help is provided and the OIDs are displayed by their ASN only.
An object can be changed, if it is Read/Write, by entering data into this form. Simply place the new value in the field and press the Accept button. The new value is sent to the remote host. If the value is Read Only or you have insufficient privileges to alter MIB values, then and error message will be displayed indicating the change was unsuccessful. Otherwise a message indicating success is shown. You may use the Back button in your browser to return to previous pages.
The standard MIB II pages contain the Read Only/Read Write information and will not allow you to enter the form if the object cannot be changed. The discover MIB page, however, cannot determine this and will allow you to attempt a change even if it is not allowed. This will result in an error when the Accept button is pressed and the change is attempted. Note that this is merely inconvenient and does not cause any damage to the system.