Patent ID: 7200653

Claim:
A data base access method, comprising: providing a management (MIB) of a simple network management protocol (SNMP) or a common management information protocol (CMIP); generating an MIB-related instruction to use the MIB-based class; performing the instruction using the MIB-based class when the instruction does not refer to a data base operation; loading the MIB-based class for the instruction and a smart view DB class comprising common information required for the data base access when the instruction refers to the data base operation; and accessing a data base by obtaining a table name and column name and type of the data base stored in the MIB-based class, wherein the generating produces a plurality of MIB-based classes corresponding to different MIB-based data bases, each of said data bases and each of said MIB-based classes interfacing with said smart view DB class comprising the common information when the instruction refers to the data base operation, the smart view DB class being an only DB application programming interface DB, the method occurring upon each change of the contents of the MIB.