Patent ID: 7739362

Claim:
A method for obtaining a current value of a Management Information base (MIB) variable stored in a managed network device in a network packet router, the method comprising the steps of: receiving a connection of a Web browser to a network packet router; receiving at the network packet router an HTTP request message from the browser to obtain the current value of the MIB variable from the network packet router to which the MIB variable value pertains; creating, at the network packet router, based on the HTTP request message, an SNMP query that requests the current value of the MIB variable; communicating the SNMP query to an SNMP daemon of the network packet router; receiving, from the SNMP daemon in response to communicating the SNMP query to the SNMP daemon, the current value of the MIB variable from the MIB of the network packet router to which the MIB variable value pertains; and communicating the current value of the MIB variable from the network packet router to which the MIB variable value pertains to the browser using an HTTP reply message.