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Category: SNMP Framework, Textual Conventions and Registries
Description:
Implements the OBJECT-TYPE macro from RFC 1212, which defines the concise format for specifying managed objects in SNMPv1 MIB modules.
Imported Objects
From RFC1155-SMI
| IpAddress | |
| NetworkAddress | |
| ObjectName |
From RFC1158-MIB
| DisplayString |
What Is RFC1212-MIB?
RFC1212-MIB implements the OBJECT-TYPE macro defined in RFC 1212, the concise-format specification used to define managed objects in SNMPv1 MIB modules. It is a foundational SMI/macro-definition module rather than a device or vendor MIB, meaning it contains no instrumented management objects of its own—it exists purely to provide the OBJECT-TYPE macro syntax that virtually all other SNMPv1-era MIB modules depend on to define their objects. Consequently it has no role in reporting hardware or software status such as uptime, temperature, or CPU load; its entire function is definitional and syntactic. Nearly every classic SNMPv1 MIB module has an implicit dependency on this macro definition to compile and be understood by MIB tooling. It is not deployed on any device itself but is a standard building-block module used by MIB compilers and management tools handling legacy SNMPv1 MIBs. Because it is a foundational macro definition rather than a device MIB, most administrators only ever encounter it indirectly, bundled into an rfc-1212 mib download alongside the legacy SNMPv1 modules that depend on it.
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Supported Devices
- vendor-neutral, standards-based MIB, not tied to a specific manufacturer
- any SNMPv1-capable network device (via the MIBs that use this macro)
Monitoring Examples
This module is a pure macro/conformance definition (the OBJECT-TYPE macro from RFC 1212) with no sample objects and no runtime data to poll; it is honestly not a monitoring MIB but a syntactic building block used by MIB compilers. There is no monitoring scenario to describe since it defines no instance data.
RFC description
Defines concise MIB definition rules and macro formats (OBJECT-TYPE) for creating SNMP MIB modules per RFC 1212.
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