MIB Browser: Overview

The MIB Browser tool is a complete SNMP MIB Browser that enables loading and browsing MIBs and allows you to perform all SNMP-related operations. You can also view and operate on the data available through the SNMP agent running on a managed device. 

MIB browser

The features of MIB Browser include the following:

• Saving the MIB Browser settings.
• Loading and viewing MIB modules in a MIB tree.
• Traversing the MIB tree to view the definitions of each node for a particular object defined in the MIB.
• Performing the basic SNMP operations, such as GET, GETNEXT, GETBULK, and SET.
• Support for multi-varbind requests. This feature is available only in the Java client.
• Real-time plotting of SNMP data in a graph. Line graph and bar graph are the two types of graphs that are currently supported. This feature is available only in the Java client.
• Table-view of SNMP data. This feature is available only in the Java client.
• Enables loading of MIBs at startup. This feature is available only in the Java client.

MIB Browser Interface

• Menu bar: Contains menus with related commands to perform all administrative operations.
• Toolbar: Contains frequently used administrative commands for easy access.
• MIB Tree: Shows all the loaded MIBs. You can traverse the tree and view the definition of each node in the tree.
• SNMP Settings: Displays the SNMP settings of the selected node.
• Result Display Area: Displays the result of the SNMP operations.
• Object Attributes: Shows the attributes of the selected node