Welcome to Webbin' CMIP
Webbin' CMIP uses simple URLs as starting points. For this reason, you
have to specify only such starting points. Please try to do not
write complex URLs by hand instead of using Webbin' CMIP. This is
error prone and is against the principle of Webbin' CMIP where users
do not have to deal with complex things.
- Authentication
If you decide to use the HTTP authentication to protect some of the
operations you want to perform with Webbin' CMIP (for instance DELETE)
please copy the files contained into the Security/ directory into the
root directory (where the Liasion is located) and customize them.
- CMIP
In order to use CMIP, you need a CMIP agent up and running. If you
have one then the URL is
http://<localhost>:1998/CMIP/GET/<the AETitle of your
running agent>/. For instance suppose that your host is called
misa.zurich.ibm.com and that the AETitle is MIBCTL then
the starting URL is http://misa.zurich.ibm.com:1998/CMIP/GET/MIBCTL/.
In case you're using object identifiers which are not included in
MIBcomposer.summary, please add them up if you want to deal with
symbolic object identifiers instead of numeric ones.
- SNMP
In order to use SNMP, you need to customize the file
discovery.cfg including your local hosts first. Then the
URL you have to use is the following
http://<localhost>:1998/SNMP/DISCOVERY/. For instance suppose that your host is called
misa.zurich.ibm.com then
the starting URL is http://misa.zurich.ibm.com:1998/SNMP/DISCOVERY/.
Do not forget that SNMP is based on UDP that's quite
unreliable. Hence do not use SNMP to manage networks connected with
slow or unreliable links because you may encounter major
problems. Instead, you can use SNMP to manage your local LAN.
Webbin' CMIP is a research prototype hence it may contain errors. In
this case we would appreciate if you can report them to us using the
error report form. Many thanks.
Have fun!
Luca Deri, September
1996.