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The Management Information Base (MIB) plays a key role in a network management system (figure 1) simply because: first, network management applications need structured information about the managed network; second, the network itself usually does not provide a simple and structured interface for information services. Currently, when network management applications are developed, they are designed to work with either Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) [6, 5] or Common Management Information Protocol (CMIP) [2], But, since a management information base (MIB) is only a repository of information about various network devices, the design of a MIB should not be constrained by the question, “what is the query access protocol.” Instead, our major concerns in building a MIB should be the data model and the structure it imposes on network information. These concerns can be addressed in a manner which is protocol independent.
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Wu, S.F., Mazumdar, S., Brady, S., Levine, D. (1994). On Implementing a Protocol Independent MIB. In: Frisch, I.T., Malek, M., Panwar, S.S. (eds) Network Management and Control. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1298-5_28
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