Documentation forSolarWinds

MIB Viewer tool

The MIB Viewer tool in ETS for the Desktop queries the management information base (MIB) database to display any OID or table. It provides a faster method than the SNMP MIB Browser to retrieve frequently used MIBs, but it does not provide browsing of the MIB tree.

Open the MIB Viewer tool

  • To launch the tool from the Toolset Launch Pad, locate the MIB Viewer tool and click Launch.

  • You can add the tool to a tab in the Workspace Studio, and access it from there.

  • To launch the tool from the Windows Start menu:

    1. Click Start > All > SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset.

    2. Right-click MIB Viewer, click More, and click Run as administrator.

View an OID or a table

  1. Enter the host name or IP address of the target device.

    MIB Viewer directly queries the device for supported MIBs.

  2. Provide an SNMP community string.

    To modify values, ensure you provide the read and write community string.

  3. Provide an OID or table name or enter an entire MIB tree.

    The MIB Viewer tool analyzes your input and determines the best way to format the results. You can also concatenate MIBs by placing an ampersand '&' between them. The MIB Viewer downloads each OID and MIB tree in the order you enter them. See Guidelines and examples.

    OID values in blue are read and write and can be changed, if you supplied a read and write community string. Click the value and enter a new value, or use the list to select a value.

  4. To view details about a selected OID, including the numerical OID and description, click View > Details.

Guidelines and examples

Review the following table for examples of valid input for the MIB Table to download field.

MIB Table to download field

Description

RFC1213-MIB:system

MIB-II system tree

1.3.6.1.2.1.1

Numeric OID equivalent to RFC1213-MIB:system

hrSWRunTable

Running software from the Host-Resources MIB

ipInReceives & next 16

IP Statistics

ICMP

ICMP statistics from RFC-1213

tcpRtoAlgorithm & Next 11 & tcpInErrs & tcpOutRsts

TCP Statistics

etherStatsTable

RMON Ethernet Statistics

frCircuitTable

Frame Relay circuits

bgpPeerTable

BGP peer table

ifPhysAddress

MAC addresses for all interfaces on a device

hrSWInstalledTable

Installed software

OLD-CISCO-MEMORY-MIB:freeMem & Next 39 & bufferHgSize & Next 7

Cisco Buffers

cdpCacheTable

Cisco Discovery Protocol table

tcpConnTable

TCP connection table

  • You can add Next X, where X represents the number of OIDs to return. The Cisco Buffers in the previous table of examples provides an example of the Next X syntax.

  • Each OID can be fully qualified with the MIB Name, a colon, and the OID name. Or you can provide only the MIB tree.

For common OID names that could exist in multiple MIBs, include the MIB Name when specifying the value. For example, system exists in RFC1213-MIB, HP-UNIX, INTEL-GEN-MIB, and the Apple Macintosh MIB, therefore specify the MIB when retrieving the value: RFC1213-MIB:system or HP-UNIX:system or INTEL-GEN-MIB:system.

Valid formats for the OID name are provided in the following table:

MIBName:OIDName

RFC1213-MIB:system

OLD-CISCO-MEMORY-MIB:freeMem

Numeric OID

1.3.6.1.2.1.1

1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.27.1.1.2

OIDName

tcpConnTable

cdpCacheTable

Export, print, and copy values

After retrieving MIB values, MIB Viewer can transfer that information to other tools by exporting to a different file format or by copying and pasting as text. You can also print the discovered information.

Export values

  1. Click File > Export, and then select the type of export.
  2. Select the information to export.
  3. Name the path for the exported information.

Copy values as plain text

  • To copy some of the information:

    1. Select the cells.

    2. Click Edit > Copy Selection.

  • To copy all information, click Edit > Copy All.

Print values

Click File > Print, and then select the information to print.