Re: OID format and MIB

A MIB writer can define a new type.
We do that a lot.

On Friday, 13 May 2016, alessandro macuz <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I tried to search the Internet for my answer but I don't seem to find it.
>
> At my company we have an appliance that for some OIDs it doesn't return an
> integer calue that can be processed and graphed but a string that looks
> like the following
>
>
>
> .1.3.6.1.3456.c.f.r.t.h.y.j.uu.i.w. : STRING ::This OID gives the height
> of the cake in the owen = 5.45
>
> Where the value of te OID is "This OID gives the height of the cake in the
> owen = 5.45"
>
> The vendor of the appliance doesn't release any MIB and from my
> understanding the way to provide a human exclamation is right returning a
> self-explanatory-string AND the value.
>
> As far as I know MIBs can only serve to describe the OIDs' structure.
>
> Now the quite-a-newbie-question: can a MIB be used to describe the format
> of the OID's value?
>
> I don't think so and I'd like to hear the opinon from somebody who knows
> SNMP much better.
>
> Because the SNMP poller we use cannot parse such returned value.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Alex
>

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