Patent ID: 11949547
Assignee: SPLUNK INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:
receiving a list of object identifiers (OIDs) generated by one or more simple network management protocol (SNMP)-enabled devices in a network environment;
querying a database to identify matching OIDs in the database that match the OIDs in the list of OIDs, the database storing a plurality of management information bases (MIBs) and OIDs, each management information base (MIB) stored in the database having one or more corresponding OIDs stored in the database;
identifying a set of one or more MIBs corresponding to the matching OIDs; and
causing the set of one or more MIBs corresponding to the matching OIDs to be loaded or stored in the network environment;
updating the list of OIDs with an updated OID list upon automatically identifying one or more additional SNMP-enabled devices being added to the network environment or identifying a hardware or software change to one or more of the one or more SNMP-enabled devices in the network environment;
querying the database to identify additional matching OIDs in the database that match updated OIDs in the updated OID list; and
identifying an updated set of one or more MIBs corresponding to the additional matching OIDs, wherein the identifying an updated set of one or more MIBs comprises obtaining updated MIB data from a vendor of the one or more additional SNMP-enabled devices added to the network environment or the one or more of the SNMP-enabled devices in the network environment.