Patent ID: 8495169
Filing Date: 2013-07-23
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method of using a Simple Network Management Protocol, SNMP, to manage a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, LDAP, information base comprising a plurality of entries each defining one or more information model object attributes, the method comprising: providing, at a network management system of an SNMP managed network, a mapping definition; and mapping, at runtime by the network management system using the mapping definition, between each of a plurality of objects of an SNMP Management Information Base, MIB, and a corresponding unique attribute of the LDAP information base, wherein a particular one of the plurality of objects includes an Object Identifier (OID), wherein the mapping includes mapping between the OID of the particular object and an LDAP Distinguished Name, DN, instance, and wherein the mapping definition includes a data structure that includes elements of the DN instance, and the data structure maps the elements of the DN instance to corresponding sub-sequences of the OID.