Documentation forSolarWinds Platform Self-Hosted

Update the SolarWinds MIB Database for the SolarWinds Platform

This topic applies only to the following products:

SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted

NAM — NPM — NTA — SRM — VNQM

SolarWinds maintains a MIB database that serves as a repository for the OIDs used to monitor a wide variety of network devices. The MIB database is updated regularly.

When you are creating a UnDP poller and cannot find an OID in the MIB tree, update the MIB database.

Download the MIB Database from the SolarWinds Platform Web Console

To check the status of your MIBs database and download the latest MIBs database directly from the SolarWinds Platform Web Console, complete the following steps:

  1. Log in to your SolarWinds Platform Web Console.

  2. Click Settings > All Settings > MIBs Management in the Details section.

    The page informs you about the MIBs database installed on your main polling engine and about the latest available version.

  3. If an updated version of the MIBs database is available, click Download.

    This downloads the latest version of the MIBs database as a MIBs.msi file.

    Keep the Show notifications setting enabled to be informed about an updated MIBs database version on relevant places - in the MIB Browser, in the Device Studio, and in the Universal Device Poller tool. The message includes a link to MIBs Management so that you can quickly download and update the MIBs database.

  4. After the download completes, run MIBs.msi installer and complete the installation wizard.

    The Installer informs you when SolarWinds Platform services need to be restarted and restarts them if necessary.

  5. Run the .msi file on all deployed polling engines - on the main polling server, HA backup server, and any additional polling engines.

Download the MIB database from the Customer Portal

When your SolarWinds Platform is not connected to the Internet, download the MIB database from the Customer Portal.

Download the MIB database

  1. Log in to the Customer Portal (https://customerportal.solarwinds.com/) using your SolarWinds Customer ID and Password.

  2. In the navigation bar, click Downloads > MIB Database.

  3. On the MIB Database page, click the download button for your SolarWinds Platform version.

    • To download MIB database for SolarWinds Platform 2025.2 or later in an offline environment, click Download As MSI V2.

    • To download MIB database for SolarWinds Platform 2025.1.1 and earlier in an offline environment, click Download As MSI.

  4. If you are using Internet Explorer and it prompts you to add the SolarWinds downloads site http://solarwinds.s3.amazonaws.com, add the site to your trusted sites.

  5. Install the MIB database.

Install the MIB database (offline environment)

  1. If your SolarWinds Platform is in an offline environment, download the MSI version of the MIBs database and transfer the file to your scalability engines.

  2. Run the MSI on all deployed polling engines - on the main polling engine server, HA backup server, and any additional polling engines.

When finished, you can check the MIBs database version in the MIBs Management view of the SolarWinds Platform Web Console.

You may need to restart the Universal Device Poller application after installing the MIB database, for example by clicking Start > SolarWinds Platform > Universal Device Poller.

Learn more about MIBs

What is a MIB?

See What is a MIB, OID, and how they are used.

Check an OID in the SolarWinds MIBs database

  1. Go to the Details view for a device.

  2. In the Management widget, click the MIB Browser button.

    The online MIB Browser opens. You can navigate through the SolarWinds MIB database and check whether an OID is available.

Add a device MIB

If you have a specific device MIB, you can have it added to the SolarWinds MIB database. See Add MIBs to the SolarWinds MIB database.