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Dear Paessler

i'm a completely newbie about snmp protocol. For what i have understood, MIB is a file that can only be read. Am i right?

Thanks in advance

file mib structure

Created on May 26, 2015 10:00:57 AM



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That's correct :)

MIB is basically a catalogue with available OID items for a device, including several descriptions of those items. Those MIB files can be imported into PRTG using the MIB Importer. Foreach OID within that MIB file, a sensor will be created.

Created on May 26, 2015 11:30:49 AM by Stephan Linke [Paessler Support]




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