A Generic Management Information Base Browser

A Management Information Base browser is a very important application in any management environment as it enables a human manager to browse through the Management Information Tree of a remote managed system, looking at and possibly modifying management information. Such an application can be designed in a generic way, without prior knowledge of the managed object classes present in a managed system. This results in a tool that can cope with different versions of standard MIBs, proprietary extensions or even newly introduced ones. The issues behind the concepts and the design of the generic browser are presented in this paper; special attention is given to the issue of coping with changes in the remote MIB in a generic fashion. Keyword Codes: C.2.3; C.2.4

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1992
• Where: ULPAA
• Authors: George Pavlou, J. Cowan, Jon Crowcroft
• Keywords: Management Information, Management Information Base, Remote Managed System, ULPAA 1992, ULPAA 1994