Someone, who used to work here, configured a linux box to send snmpset/get requests using MIB object names instead of OIDs. snmpget is called in a shell with some familiar switches and then, bam, just the object name. How is he doing this? Is there a way to configure snmp in linux so that you can do this? I am hearing from coworkers that perhaps there is a way to configure netsnmp on your machine to do the conversion from object names to OIDs.
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So we figured this out. In Linux, snmp can be installed on the command line with sudo apt-get install snmp. The syntax is the same as net-snmp. With a basic installation, you have to pas OIDs (which are period separated strings of integers) into snmpget/set to get a response. However, you can see here everything you need to set up your machine to take in the object names. You need to add your mib files to a directory and then point snmp.conf to your mibs.
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