[IETFMIBS] MIB implementation

[Guo Peter <[e-mail]>]

Hello,

I am a developer for Grass Valley. Our registration for SNMP is  1.3.6.1.4.1.4947. I have a customer want to inquire about the MAC address of our device. He is trying to get the Physical address of the hardware using Get Request for the 1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.6 and return nothing. Please see the screen capture and comments below. So my question is as a third party vendor we are normally only implementing MIB version 1(or MIB version 2) under our enterprise 1.3.6.1.4.1.4947 tree. So I don't see the iPhyAddress in our tree. So how should implement this for our customer? Or is the our responsibility to do? And is this field a mandatory field we had to implement? Where and how should I do that?



Regards, Peter Guo

Grass Valley Inc.






"Here is what I have found so far - The SNMP configured devices are not replying to the SNMP-Get request for Mib 2 Interfaces. This is necessary for proper identification of connectivity. Spectrum uses the MAC address and compares it with the Switch ARP table to define where the device is connected. If the device is not responding to this OID request, Spectrum has no way to map it to the switch. This hinders fault isolation and troubleshooting. I have attached the results of a MIB 2 query. The device reports no results.  I would look to the engineering folks to see why the device does not respond to a MIB 2 query."