What is a Management Information Base (MIB)?

A Management Information Base is part of every SNMP-managed device. Each SNMP agent has the MIB database that contains information about the device's status, its performance, connections, and configuration. The MIB is queried by SNMP.

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Pramod singh Basera

Mar 30th, 2007

This term comes from the OSI Network management model.It is a kind of virtual database used to manage the devices in a network.It consists of record the of network entities( e.g. routers,switches) in form of objects.The database is hierarchical (tree structured) and entries are addressed through object identifiers.