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Brocade 6910 Ethernet Access Switch MIB Reference

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Standard objects

Downloading the MIB from Brocade FTP site

You can also download the MIB from the Knowledge Portal. Contact Brocade Technical Support for
details. For the latest edition of this document, which contains the most up-to-date information,
refer to the Product Manuals tab at

www.brocade.com

.

Importing the Brocade MIB into a UNIX environment

You can import the Brocade 6910 MIB into third-party network management applications, such as
HP OpenView. By default, the Brocade 6910 MIB files are in DOS ASCII format that uses the
following characters:

CR/LF – Indicates the end of a line

^Z - Indicates the end of a file

However, in a UNIX environment, the characters LF are used to indicate the end of a line. No
character indicates the end of a file. Thus, if you need to import the Brocade 6910 MIB into a UNIX
environment, you must use a tool that converts the DOS ASCII into UNIX ASCII, such as the
dos2unix tool.

Reloading MIBs into a third-party NMS

Third party network management systems, such as HP OpenView may have problems reloading
MIB files. Ensure that you must upload the following when reloading the Brocade 6910 MIB:

Unload the Enterprise MIBs which were installed from the previous upgrade before reloading
any new Enterprise MIB file.

Unload the Standard MIBs which were installed from the previous upgrade before reloading
any new Standard MIB file.

Standard objects

The Brocade 6910 MIB supports certain standard MIB objects, which are derived from Request for
Comments (RFCs) documents. Refer to

Chapter 2, “Supported Standard MIBs”

for details on the

supported standard MIBs.

Proprietary objects

Proprietary objects are MIB objects that have been developed specifically to manage the Brocade
6910 switch. This section presents a summarized list of these objects.

Table 1

shows the hierarchy of the MIB objects that are proprietary to the Brocade 6910. These

objects may also be referred to as the private (or enterprise) MIBs.

On the MIB tree, the object named “foundry” marks the start of the IronWare MIB objects. The
“foundry” object branches into the “products” branch, which branches further into three major
nodes:

switch – Includes general SNMP MIB objects and objects related to switching functions.