Understanding SNMP data from get request

[carlosAlberto]

Hi,

I'm just wondering if there is a method that exists to interpret/understand the data returned from a get or walk request.

E.g. When i retrieve data about an interface on a router, it's displayed as e.g. MIB OID = 121 which doesn't mean a lot until you interpret it.

If you walk the interface MIB it returns a lot of confusing values back.


Is there some way of understanding this data??

Carl.

 

[srnweng1]

What you get back usually refers to an interface for instance you 121 might be looking at port 1 on slot 12. When you do a walk the MIB browser gathers data on every MIB in a given brach. You are correct in that you will need some documentation to make sense of the values returned by the browser.

Hope this helps some.