MIB additions

[Kevin Keane]

Strictly speaking, you don't need any of the MIBs at all. MIBs just 
translate the cryptic numeric OIDs into a more human-readable form. As a 
side effect, a MIB also gives you a good idea of which OIDs a particular 
device will understand. In a way, you can think of the MIBs as the SNMP 
equivalent of a /etc/hosts file for IP addressing.

But if you feel comfortable with using OIDs directly, you can simply 
hand them right to check_snmp directly, just as you can use IP addresses 
directly.

As others have already pointed out, Nagios does not actually understand 
SNMP at all. It only understands plugins.

SYS ADMIN wrote:
> I keep running across MIB lists that imply they can be loaded into SNMP
> monitoring softwares directly.
> Is there provision to do this in Nagios?
> I have some hardware devices that I would like to monitor, and can get
> these lists, but don't know how to get them into a form where
> Nagios/SNMP can determine the OIDs I need.
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