Patent ID: 6981038

Claim:
A method of determining Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) object identifiers in a Management Information Base (MIB) file that identify Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, comprising the steps of: creating an intermediate file that is a representation of the MIB file containing attribute specific information including the SNMP object identifier for each attribute; determining all the SNMP object identifiers contained in the intermediate file that identify relevant attribute types; and generating an output file containing the SNMP object identifiers determined to identify the relevant attribute types, wherein the relevant attribute types include an IP address type attribute and/or a table-based attribute that is pointed to by an IP address, wherein the determining step further comprises the steps of: storing the SNMP object identifiers determined to identify IP address type attributes; storing all attributes contained in a table for table-based attributes that are pointed to by an IP address; and determining and storing a start position of the IP address used as a pointer in the SNMP object identifier.