[VOIPSEC] SNMP support for EventCorrelation/NetworkManagementSystems

[Simon Horne]

At 05:25 AM 26/02/2005, Mark Teicher wrote:
>The end point may incorporate it, then the .mib file will have either 
>adhere to ASN.1 standards or not.  After that, the various NMS/Event 
>Management systems have to incorporate it into their basic package or have 
>a 3rd party SNMP compiler that allows for errors that vendors may insert 
>into their .mib.  I ran into this problem a few weeks ago with a vendor 
>adhering to the SNMP standard but the .mib still had errors during 
>compilation for a common NMS system.
>
>The last I pinged either, there has been finger pointing in the various 
>directions and the VOIP vendor has stated, "hey we don't have time to fix 
>it, we are to busy working on our next release "

For H323 (due to the language I assume so) there is a standard H.341 for 
SNMP support. In fact a range of standard .mib files for H.341 are 
available for free from the ITU website. If they're not using them (or 
can't read them) then they are technically non-compliant for H323. You can 
go scream at them for being H323 SNMP non-compliant and watch them jump :)

Simon