To Use the Sun Management Center SNMP MIBs in a Third-Party Management Station

1. Preprocess the MIBs.

   Some SNMP management stations can read the ASN.1 MIBs. Others require the ASN.1 MIBs to be converted to some other format in order to be read. For example, you might need to convert the MIB to a Guidelines for the Description of Managed Objects (GDMO) format or use a MIB compiler to generate another intermediate format.

2. Load the MIB.

   Load the ASN.1 MIB or a preprocessed format of that MIB into the third-party management station. This step informs the third-party management station about the layout and composition of the data that is modeled by the MIB.

3. Use the MIB information to talk to the Sun Management Center agent.

   Once the MIB is successfully loaded into the third-party SNMP agent, you can communicate with the Sun Management Center agent to get the data from the MIB. The MIB-II Proxy Monitoring module must be loaded and be enabled in the Sun Management Center agent.

   For example, you can start issuing the SNMP Get commands on some of the variables in the MIB.

   By default, the Sun Management Center modules are enabled for SNMP Get commands by using the SNMPv1 community public and SNMPv2 user name public. However, if the Sun Management Center module has different settings, then you need to use the correct community name and user name to communicate with the Sun Management Center agent.

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   Note –

   Because Sun Management Center agents operate with SNMPv2 usec-based security, SNMP Set commands on the agent are involved. Refer to the SNMPv2 usec-related Request For Comments (RFCs) for more information.

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