MIB Browser Quick Start

iReasoning MIB browser is a powerful and easy-to-use tool powered by iReasoning SNMP API and UltraSwing GUI library. MIB browser is an indispensable tool for engineers to manage SNMP enabled network devices and applications. It allows users to load standard, proprietary MIBs, and even some mal-formed MIBs. It also allows them to issue SNMP requests to retrieve agent's data, or make changes to the agent. A built-in trap receiver can receive SNMP traps and handle trap storm.

Major features:

Requirements

• Windows, Linux, and Unix operating systems
• At least 64 MB memory is required
• SUN JRE 1.4 or later version

Download and Run MIB Browser

2. On windows, enter mibbrowser home directory and run browser.bat.
On other platforms, run browser.sh to start browser.

The Browser GUI

• Menu

  • File menu

    • Load MIB

      Launch a file dialog for picking a MIB file.

    • Exit

      Exit browser.

  • Edit menu

    • Find

      Find a node in MIB tree.

• Toolbar

  

  • Address field

    Enter the IP address and port number of SNMP agent, in the format of "ipAddress:port". The ":port" is not necessary if the port number is 161.

  • Advanced button

    Customize the properties of current SNMP agent, such as community names, SNMPv3 USM parameters, etc.

  • OID field

    Object identifier to be used for SNMP queries. This field is updated when user select a node in MIB tree or a row in the result table. You can also type new value directly in this field.

  • Go button

    Click on this button and a dropdown menu will show up. This menu lists the available SNMP operations, including SNMP Get, GetNext, Set, GetSubtree, Walk and Table view.

  • Go button/Set

    
    

    Enter a new value in the "Value" field then click on "Ok" button.

    Note:

    • For BITS data type, you need to use mathematical notation for a set of integers, that is, something like {1, 3, 8}.
    • The format for hex string is (0x[0-9A-Fa-f][0-9A-Fa-f] )+. For instance, 0x12 0xA1 0x30

  • Go button/Table View

    
    

    Click on this menu item will bring up a new table view window. But first, OID field needs to be an OID of a table node or a node in its subtree. For example, it can ifTable, ifEntry, or ifIndex, etc.

• Mib tree pane

  

  • Tree

    Tree view. Right click on a node, a popup menu shows up. Depending on the node properties, if right on a root node of a MIB module, popup menu includes three menu items: Find, Expand and Unload MIB. On other nodes, popup menu has only two menu items: Find and Expand.

  • Node properties

    Display properties of selected node. Tooltips of second column shows more information, especially for "Descr" row.

• Result pane

  

  • Result table

    Display the result of SNMP queries.

  • Clear Table button

    Clear the result table.

  • Raw Data button

    launch a new dialog window showing the raw results of SNMP queries

  • Stop button

    Stop current pending SNMP queries.

• Trap pane

  

  • Trap table

    Display received traps. New trap is inserted on the top of the table. The yellow icons ( ) indicate the SNMP version of traps.

  • Start Trap Receiver button

    Start trap receiver. It'll be grayed out if trap receiver is started.

  • Stop button

    Stop trap receiver.

  • Clear Table button

    Clear the trap table.

• Log pane

  Log pane display application's log information. To clear the content, right click on this pane and select "Clear text" menu item.

Config file