Use of MIB Browser. HELP!!

[estherlc]

Hello you all
I'm relatively new in developing SNMP applications. Currently, I'm developing a LabVIEW based application, that is an SNMP Agent. Obviously, this agent must respond to SNMP queries.
The application decodes the message received, extracts the OID and process the response, generating the correponding message.
I have downloaded various MIB Browser, to send queries to my application, and I have found that some OID's are terminated with a ".0".
Perhaps it's a stupid question, I'm new on it, but, is it normal? all variable OID end with ".0" or is the MIB file that is incorrect?

Thanks for your help

 

[bhawna]

Hi estherlc,
SNMP has two kinds of variables - scalar and vector. The scalar are like a single instance of a data type. Hence as a rule any MIB browser would append ".0" to a scalar variable. While in case of vector you would need the instance number and that would be atleast 1 or anything else but cannot be "0".
Bhawna