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MIBs

A MIB (Management Information Base) is the numeric code that identifies an event and includes other data as necessary to describe the object affected by the event. It is essential that no two vendors use the same MIB number to describe different events, so standards exist to organize MIBs into one of three broad categories.

• Industry Standard MIBs are sanctioned and published by the International Standards Organization (ISO).
• Enterprise MIBs are assigned by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) to a given organization and are reserved for the exclusive use of that organization.
• Pseudo-MIBs are not sanctioned or assigned by the IANA but can be just as meaningful and useful as an ISO or Enterprise MIB. Pseudo-MIBs often piggy-back on an Enterprise MIB of another organization and take advantage of many of the defaults available on a given platform.