The Worst MIB in the World
March 5th, 2007
This lovely turd is courtesy of NexTone Communications (Update: whose newer MIBs are much better — see Scott’s second comment below). I have personally never seen a worse MIB in my life — it consists of a single OID that is just a string and is used by the solitary generalTrap to convey who-knows-what when some unknown thing happens.
Update: NexTone’s more recent MIBs are much better written and convey much more useful and deterministic information. If you’re selecting a vendor based on SNMP support, and NexTone is in the running, I’d say that NexTone looks pretty good now. I’d still like to see more than just traps, but as trap-only MIBs go, the new ones aren’t bad at all. See Scott’s second comment below.
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